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beclouded

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of beclouded

1 covered over by clouds

  • a gloomy, beclouded sky that aptly matched our mood
Synonyms of beclouded

clouded, cloudy, dull, hazed, hazy, heavy, lowering (also louring), overcast, overclouded
Words Related to beclouded

bedimmed, befogged, blackened, darkened, darksome, dim, dimmed, dulled, dusky, misty, murky, obscure, obscured, overshadowed

sunless

black, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen
Near Antonyms of beclouded

sunlit, sunny, sunshiny

brightened, brilliant, dazzling, illuminated, illumined, lit (or lighted), lightened, radiant, shiny
Antonyms of beclouded

clear, cloudless

2 filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension

  • the water was so beclouded by mud that I couldn't see the bottom
Synonyms of beclouded

befogged, brumous, clouded, cloudy, foggy, gauzy, hazy, misty, murky, smoggy, soupy
Words Related to beclouded

overcast, rainy, stormy, thick

dirty, miry, mucky, muddy, slimy, slushy, turbid

miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic

smoky (also smokey), smudgy, sooty

filmy, milky, opaque
Near Antonyms of beclouded

bright, clean

clement, fair, sunny, sunshiny

translucent, transparent
Antonyms of beclouded

clear, cloudless, limpid, pellucid, unclouded

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