Synonyms of clouded

clouded 1 of 2

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

The story in Transylvania, part of what the Romans called Dacia, is somewhat clouded by present-day nationalist narratives, but seems to have followed a similar pattern. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026

Cognitive dysfunction, trouble focusing or clouded thinking during chemotherapy treatments is common among many cancer patients. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026

As lovers of the first film know, Paul is blessed with visions of the future, but his mind has grown clouded since assuming control of the galaxy. — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 July 2026

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

Verb

The ash has clouded the skies over eastern Sicily and disrupted operations at nearby Catania International Airport. — Anna Matranga, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

In the last few years, Penn State’s singular focus – to win a national championship – clouded everything else. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

As Venus and Neptune tussle, your romantic judgment gets clouded. — Usa Today, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

SpaceX shares plunged on Wednesday after a surge in AI spending rattled investors and clouded an otherwise expectation-beating quarter. — Sean Conlon,joseph Wilkins,lee Ying Shan,tobias Burns, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026

Baer is hoping to achieve double redundancy throughout the shadow's path, ensuring an uninterrupted view in the event that a group is clouded out, or loses connection. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026

However, it was clouded by an injury to one of their top offseason acquisitions. — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

As work proceeds, plumes of sand have clouded waters near endangered coral and conchs while noisy excavators drown out waves along the popular beach next to Port Everglades. — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

Gabriella’s dynamic with Lestat has been clouded all season by his own inability to understand it, though the show arguably could’ve done a better job to at least gesture toward what its protagonist couldn’t articulate. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026