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cloudy

adj
/ˈklaʊ̯diː/CA/ˈklaʊ̯ɾiː/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from clūdiġ — “stony, rocky”
  2. inherited from cloudy — “cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”

Definitions

  1. Covered with or characterised by clouds.

  2. Not transparent or clear.

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

  3. Uncertain

    Uncertain; unclear.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Using or relating to cloud computing.

      • a cloudy infrastructure

    2. shady

      shady; sketchy; suspicious

    3. Having cloudlike markings.

      • cloudy marble

The neighborhood

Derived

cloudily, cloudiness, cloudywing, cloudy wing virus, noncloudy, uncloudy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cloudy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cloudy02clouds03cloud04smoke05vapour06vapor

A definitional loop anchored at cloudy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at cloudy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA