cloud-ridden

English

Etymology

cloud +‎ ridden

Adjective

cloud-ridden (comparative more cloud-ridden, superlative most cloud-ridden)

1. Full of clouds.
   • 1915, F. Tennyson Jesse, “A Garden Enclosed”, in Beggars on Horseback‎^[1], London: Heinemann, page 168:

     We saw the sea-grey slopes of olive-trees
     Blown foamy-pale, from the cloud-ridden air
     Fell the swift shadows on those leafy seas.

   • 1987, José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero, Baltasar and Blimunda‎^[2], Orlando: Harcourt, page 130:

     […] He then looks up at the cloud-ridden sky, one great sombre plaque, the colour of slate, he tells her, If wills are dark clouds, perhaps, they’re trapped in these thick, black clouds shutting out the sun […]

2. During which the sky is full of clouds.
   • 1895, Arthur Foxwell, “The Climatic Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis”, in Essays in Heart and Lung Disease‎^[3], London: Charles Griffin & Co, page 240:

     I shall not dilate on the value of sunshine; there can be no need to do so to any dweller among the dun cold mists of our cloud-ridden winters.

   • 1995, Ardath Mayhar, chapter 2, in Hunters of the Plains‎^[4], The Borgo Press, published 2008, page 15:

     The bright morning had turned into a cloud-ridden noon.

3. Covered or obscured by clouds.
   • 1885, “Bogota”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine‎^[5], volume 71, number 421, page 49:

     […] the traveller […] with difficulty ascends from the parched banks of the Magdalena, the Sabana—with its encircling chain of mountains and the extinct volcano of Tolima, snow-capped and cloud ridden in the distance […]

   • 1985, Paul J. Curran, Principles of Remote Sensing‎^[6], London: Longman, Section 4.4.6, p. 126:

     Mosaics are employed for the mapping of large areas of what is often cloud ridden terrain.

Synonyms

• (full of clouds): cloudy, overcast