cloudy

cloudy

English

Etymology

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈklaʊdi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɫaʊdi/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈklaʊːdɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊdi

Adjective

cloudy (comparative cloudier, superlative cloudiest)

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
2. Not transparent or clear.
   • 2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time‎:

     […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.

   1. (of fruit juice) Containing pith
3. Uncertain; unclear.
4. (computing, informal) Using or relating to cloud computing.

   a cloudy infrastructure

5. (slang, archaic) shady; sketchy; suspicious

Derived terms

• cloudily
• cloudiness
• cloudy wing virus

 

Translations

covered with or characterised by clouds

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ամպամած (hy) (ampamac) Asturian: nubláu, nublosu Assamese: ডাৱৰীয়া (daworia) Azerbaijani: buludlu, tutqun (az) Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: хма́рны (xmárny), пахму́рны (paxmúrny) Bikol Central: Bikol Legazpi: madampog Bikol Naga: mapanganuron Breton: koumoulek (br) Bulgarian: о́блачен (bg) (óblačen), зао́блачен (bg) (zaóblačen) Catalan: ennuvolat (ca), nuvolós (ca) Chinese: Gan: 烏陰天 (u im thien) Mandarin: 多雲／多云 (zh) (duōyún) Cornish: komolek Czech: oblačný, zamračený Danish: overskyet, skyet Dutch: bewolkt (nl) Elfdalian: muolin Esperanto: nuba (eo) Estonian: pilvine Faroese: skýggjaður, samdrigin Finnish: pilvinen (fi) French: nuageux (fr) Friulian: nûlat Galician: nubrado (gl) Georgian: ღრუბლიანი (ɣrubliani) German: bewölkt (de), wolkig (de) Greek: συννεφιασμένος (el) (synnefiasménos) Ancient: συννεφής (sunnephḗs) Greenlandic: nuiasoq Hawaiian: ʻōmalumalu Hebrew: מעונן‎ (me'unan) Hindi: मेघाच्छादित (hi) (meghācchādit) Hungarian: felhős (hu) Icelandic: skýjaður (is) Indonesian: berawan (id) Irish: scamallach, néaltach Italian: nuvoloso (it), nuvolo (it) (regional), coperto (it) Japanese: 曇りの (ja) (くもりの, kumori no) Khmer: មានពពក (mien pɔpɔɔk) Korean: 흐리다 (ko) (heurida) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھەوری‎ (ku) (hewrî) Northern Kurdish: ewrîn (ku) m Lao: ພະຍັບ (pha nyap), ຟ່າງ (fāng) Latin: nūbilōsus, nūbilus Latvian: apmācies, mākoņains Lithuanian: debesuotas Lombard: nivol (lmo) Louisiana Creole French: kouvær, kouvè, kouvèr Luxembourgish: bedeckt, wollekeg Macedonian: о́блачен (óblačen) Malay: mendung (ms) Manchu: ᡤᡳᠯᠠᡥᡡᠨ (gilahūn), ᡨᡠᠯᡥᡠᠨ (tulhun) Maori: kōngū, kōmaru, kāpuapua, kōruki, whakaipuipu, tukumaru, tukupū, tāmaru Middle English: cloudy Mongolian: үүлтэй (üültej) Mòcheno: gahilb Nahuatl: mixxoh Navajo: kʼos Nepali: बदली (badalī) Norman: nouageux Northern Sami: balvái Norwegian: Bokmål: skyet (no), overskyet (no) Nynorsk: skya, overskya Occitan: nivolós Persian: ابری‎ (fa) Polish: pochmurny (pl) m Portuguese: nublado (pt) Romanian: înnorat (ro), noros (ro) Romansch: nivlus, neblus, nivlous, nüvlus, nivlieu Russian: о́блачный (ru) (óblačnyj), па́смурный (ru) (pásmurnyj) Scots: drumlie Scottish Gaelic: sgòthach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: облачан Roman: oblačan (sh) Shor: пулуттығ (puluttığ) Sicilian: nuvulusu (scn), nivulusu (scn) Slovak: oblačný Slovene: oblačen (sl) m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: mróčelaty, mróčałkaty Spanish: nublado (es), nublo (es) (Latin America) Sundanese: reueuk Swedish: molnig (sv) Tagalog: (literally) maulap Talysh: avə Thai: มีเมฆ (mee mâyk) Turkish: bulutlu (tr) Ukrainian: хма́рний (xmárnyj) Urdu: ابری‎ (ur) (abri), ابر آلود‎ (abr-ālūd) Venetian: nuvołoxo, nùvoło, nùgoło Vietnamese: có mây Welsh: cymylog (cy) Yiddish: וואָלקנדיק‎ (volkndik)

not transparent; not clear

Bulgarian: мътен (bg) (mǎten), непрозрачен (bg) (neprozračen) Catalan: nebulós French: trouble (fr) Greek: Ancient: θολερός (tholerós) Italian: nebuloso (it), torbido (it) Manx: neuheelit (of liquid) Middle English: cloudy Norwegian: Bokmål: grumsete Nynorsk: grumsete Portuguese: turvo (pt) Russian: му́тный (ru) (mútnyj) Spanish: turbio (es)

uncertain; unclear

Bulgarian: неясен (bg) (nejasen), объркан (bg) (obǎrkan) Catalan: nebulós French: brumeux (fr), nébuleux (fr), opaque (fr) German: trüb (de) Hungarian: felhős (hu) Japanese: 濁り (ja) (nigori) Middle English: cloudy Portuguese: nebuloso (pt), confuso (pt) Russian: нея́сный (ru) (nejásnyj), тума́нный (ru) (tumánnyj)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• cloudi, clowdy, clowdie
• (Early ME) cludiȝ

Etymology

From Old English clūdiġ; equivalent to cloud +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkluːdiː/

Adjective

cloudy

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; clouded.
2. Not transparent or clear; murky, gloomy.
3. (rare) Inspiring dread; scary, frightening.
4. (rare) Featuring rocks; rocky, stony.

Related terms

• cloudy

Descendants

• English: cloudy
• Scots: cluddy, cloody

References

• “clǒudī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.