Synonyms of clouded

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adjective

1

as in hazy

covered over by clouds

clouded skies did not diminish our fun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hazy
• darkened
• misty
• murky
• cloudy
• overcast
• beclouded
• gray
• overclouded
• bleak
• dark
• dull
• hazed
• lowering
• obscured
• dimmed
• blackened
• heavy
• dulled
• dim
• dusky
• obscure
• black
• overshadowed
• befogged
• bedimmed
• darksome
• gloomy
• somber
• sullen
• cheerless
• dismal
• desolate
• dreary
• glum
• funereal
• sepulchral
• drear
• sunless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• cloudless
• sunny
• sunlit
• sunshiny
• dazzling
• brilliant
• illuminated
• radiant
• shiny
• lit
• illumined
• lightened
• brightened

2

as in misty

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

with only a clouded view of the valley before, we canceled the hang gliding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hazy
• misty
• murky
• rainy
• foggy
• cloudy
• smoggy
• thick
• beclouded
• milky
• smoky
• befogged
• muddy
• soupy
• gauzy
• overcast
• turbid
• brumous
• slimy
• stormy
• mucky
• slushy
• opaque
• miasmatic
• smudgy
• sooty
• miasmic
• dirty
• miasmal
• miry
• filmy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• cloudless
• limpid
• bright
• unclouded
• clean
• pellucid
• fair
• sunny
• transparent
• translucent
• sunshiny
• clement

clouded

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verb

past tense of cloud

1

as in obscured

to make dark, dim, or indistinct

the diner's dark interior, clouded with smoke and grease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obscured
• blurred
• darkened
• blackened
• overshadowed
• shrouded
• dimmed
• fogged
• beclouded
• shadowed
• hazed
• overcast
• misted
• overclouded
• bedimmed
• befogged
• eclipsed
• concealed
• bleared
• shaded
• covered
• obliterated
• hid
• dislimned
• fuzzed (up)
• masked
• adumbrated
• cloaked
• veiled
• blotted out
• camouflaged
• screened
• curtained
• disguised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brightened
• illuminated
• lit (up)
• revealed
• exposed
• lightened
• illumined
• uncovered
• unveiled

2

as in confused

to make (something) unclear to the understanding

cloud the issue with obscure statistics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• confused
• blurred
• beclouded
• fogged
• muddied
• obfuscated
• complicated
• disrupted
• befogged
• perplexed
• sophisticated
• tangled
• snarled
• upset
• muddled
• jumbled
• entangled
• disordered
• scrambled
• disarranged
• shuffled
• disheveled
• tousled
• disturbed
• mixed (up)
• disarrayed
• discomposed
• messed (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clarified
• illuminated
• cleared (up)
• simplified
• streamlined
• straightened (out)
• disentangled
• unraveled
• analyzed
• undid
• deciphered
• decoded
• untangled
• broke down
• unscrambled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of clouded

Adjective

And that without this European environment and these European roots, the economic outlook is, at the very least, clouded. — Mike Sheen, CNBC, 3 July 2026

Within days of the pool being refilled in early June, the water had turned green and algae-clouded amid a heat wave in Washington, DC that saw temperatures reach 100 degrees. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 23 June 2026

Smoke clouded swaths of Los Angeles for a sixth day Monday, after a fire broke out at a warehouse in the Boyle Heights area. — Adela Suliman, NBC news, 22 June 2026

For a coach who has enjoyed the level of success Tortorella has with Vegas, the answer is unusually clouded. — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 16 June 2026

The last years of his life were sort of clouded by that. — John Blake, CNN Money, 9 June 2026

Saying that Tim Duncan was the best player in the world from 2003-2007 is insanely clouded by hindsight bias. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026

Ghostly figures depicting service members also appeared to emerge from the sky as sunlight pierced through clouded skies. — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2026

Malinovsky, an engineer, said his memory of the next few hours are somewhat clouded. — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2026

Verb

Global foreign investment rose last year, the UN said Tuesday, but warned that this year’s outlook is clouded by trade policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 7 July 2026

Each features clouded bubbles to suggest aging, and the Air Max 90 takes the idea further with a distressed upper in the Infrared colorway. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 30 June 2026

Press speculation and misinformation clouded many details of the Black Dahlia case, including the origin of the nickname. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 June 2026

Library officials contend uncertainty over new state and federal laws has complicated the issue and clouded the budget outlook. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026

Yet within weeks of Trump declaring the rehabilitation completed in time for Independence Day, the water was plagued by a vivid green algae bloom that clouded the pool’s coating. — Matthew Daly, Fortune, 24 June 2026

During the trial, Diana Barratt, a Boca Raton neurologist hired by the defense, testified that the other boat theory was a result of Pino's memory being clouded after the crash. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026

Madrid’s results under Alonso clouded the reality, there were plenty of scratchy league victories — won more via individualism rather than any inherent tactical structure. — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 23 June 2026

Yet within weeks of Trump declaring the rehabilitation completed in time for Independence Day, the water was plagued by a vivid green algae bloom that clouded the pool’s coating. — Matthew Daly, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026