cloudier; cloudiest
1
: of, relating to, or resembling cloud
cloudy smoke
2
: darkened by gloom or anxiety
a cloudy mood
3
a
: overcast with clouds
cloudy weather
b
: having a cloudy sky
a cloudy day
4
: obscure in meaning
cloudy issues
also
: uncertain as to fact or outcome
a cloudy future
5
: dimmed or dulled as if by clouds
a cloudy mirror
6
: uneven in color or texture
7
: having visible material in suspension : murky
a cloudy liquid
Examples of cloudy in a Sentence
Tomorrow will be cloudy and cold.
the water coming out of the faucet was unusually cloudy
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Its roof had been swept away, leaving beds, albeit with their sheets and blankets still in place, left open to the morning wind and cloudy skies.
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Nelly Carreño, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
The restaurant has moved three times, and some of its history became cloudy along the way.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2026
Its roof had been swept away, leaving beds, albeit with their sheets and blankets still in place, left open to the morning wind and cloudy skies.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
There are always thick, cloudy eye walls around that hurricane, and winds that rotate more quickly, in terms of angular velocity, than the winds at lower, surrounding latitudes.
—Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for cloudy
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“Cloudy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloudy. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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cloudy
adjective
cloudier; cloudiest
1
: darkened by gloom or anxiety
a cloudy mood
2
: covered over by clouds
a cloudy sky
3
: dimmed or dulled as if by clouds
a cloudy mirror
4
: uneven in color or texture
5
: having visible material in suspension
the water from the faucet was cloudy
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