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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊdi

Adjective

cloudy (comparative cloudier, superlative cloudiest)

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.

   Synonym: clouded

   Antonyms: cloudless, noncloudy, unclouded, uncloudy

2. Not transparent or clear.
   • 2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time‎^[1]:

     […] 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
6. Having cloudlike markings.

   cloudy marble

Derived terms

• cloudily
• cloudiness
• cloudy wing virus

 

Related terms

• cloud ceiling
• cloud cover

 

Translations

covered with or characterised by clouds

• Afrikaans: bewolk
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: غائم (ḡāʔim)
• Armenian: ամպամած (hy) (ampamac)
• Assamese: ডাৱৰীয়া (daworia)
• Asturian: nubláu, nublosu
• Azerbaijani: buludlu, tutqun (az)
• Basque: hodeitsu
• 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／乌阴天 (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 (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
• Mòcheno: gahilb
• Mongolian: үүлтэй (üültej)
• 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) (abri)
• 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)
• Sardinian: annuadu
• 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), kapalı (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)

• Irish: modartha
• Italian: nebuloso (it), torbido (it)
• Macedonian: заматен (zamaten)
• 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)

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.