cloudy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CLOUDY, adjective 1. Overcast with clouds; obscured with clouds; as a cloudy day; a cloudy sky; a cloudy night. 2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds; as a cloudy pillar. Exodus 33:9. 3. Obscure; dark; not easily understood; as cloudy and confused notions. 4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or illnature; not open or cheerful; as cloudy looks. 5. Indicating gloom or sullenness; as cloudy wrath. 6. Marked with veins or spots of dark or various hues, as marble. 7. Not bright; as a cloudy diamond.
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