Cloudy
adjective
Covered by clouds.
It is a cloudy day, we might get some rain.
Often appears as...
- cloudy day
- cloudy weather
adjective
Not clear or transparent due to having particles suspended in it.
The tap water is cloudy, we might need to filter it.
Often appears as...
- cloudy water
- cloudy liquid
adjective
Unclear or difficult to understand.
His explanation was cloudy and confusing.
Often appears as...
- cloudy explanation
- cloudy memory
adjective
Indicative of potential future problems or difficulties.
There are cloudy prospects for the job market next year.
Often appears as...
- cloudy future
- cloudy prospects
adjective
Covered by clouds.
It is a cloudy day, we might get some rain.
Often appears as...
- cloudy day
- cloudy weather
adjective
Not clear or transparent due to having particles suspended in it.
The tap water is cloudy, we might need to filter it.
Often appears as...
- cloudy water
- cloudy liquid
adjective
Unclear or difficult to understand.
His explanation was cloudy and confusing.
Often appears as...
- cloudy explanation
- cloudy memory
adjective
Indicative of potential future problems or difficulties.
There are cloudy prospects for the job market next year.
Often appears as...
- cloudy future
- cloudy prospects
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Related
Used to describe the sky when it's grey and covered with clouds, often before rain.
Cancel the picnic, it's too cloudy.
Pro Tip 2/3Mood Setting
Can describe a somber or dismal atmosphere, often in poetry or storytelling.
The cloudy skies mirrored her somber mood.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Often used to create a visual imagery of a grey, oppressive sky, in creative writing.
The castle loomed under the cloudy heavens.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Related
Used to describe the sky when it's grey and covered with clouds, often before rain.
Cancel the picnic, it's too cloudy.
Pro Tip 2/3Mood Setting
Can describe a somber or dismal atmosphere, often in poetry or storytelling.
The cloudy skies mirrored her somber mood.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Often used to create a visual imagery of a grey, oppressive sky, in creative writing.
The castle loomed under the cloudy heavens.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Related
Used to describe the sky when it's grey and covered with clouds, often before rain.
Cancel the picnic, it's too cloudy.
Pro Tip 2/3Mood Setting
Can describe a somber or dismal atmosphere, often in poetry or storytelling.
The cloudy skies mirrored her somber mood.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Often used to create a visual imagery of a grey, oppressive sky, in creative writing.
The castle loomed under the cloudy heavens.
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Jonathan Harris: The web...
This provides a slightly more statistical look at things. This is showing the world's most common feelings overall right now, dominated by better, then bad, then good, then guilty, and so on. Weather causes the feelings to assume the physical traits of the weather they represent. So the sunny ones swirl around, the cloudy ones float along, the rainy ones fall down,
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Jonathan Harris: The...
and it dies out very quickly from there. In weather, the feelings assume the physical characteristics of the weather that they represent, so that the ones collected on a sunny day swirl around as if they're part of the sun. The cloudy ones float along as if they're on a breeze. The rainy ones fall down as if they're in a rainstorm,
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Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
plans lots and lots of spotted plans for the afternoon hopefully we'll get some sort of success at some point but it is a glorious day compared to this morning which was windy and miserable and cloudy we now have beautiful sunshine it's clear there's a bit of a breeze blowing that's still quite cool but otherwise it
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How I Got the Shot:...
done messed up I was using these seal decoy swarming doing aerial photography using spotter pilots this was just starting to stack up in a way that had me believing it might not ever happen since he said the what is very cloudy number one there's only one animal so the ones better than none once you check
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Finding planets around...
of our Sun's magnetic activity -- the kind of thing that happens on other stars as well. Just think, even when it's cloudy outside, these kind of events are happening in the sky above you all the time. So when we want to learn whether a planet is habitable, whether it might be amenable to life,
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Cloudy climate change:...
Firstly, how cloudy was the pre-industrial climate? And, hence, how much have clouds changed due to human activities? That knowledge will help sharpen climate projections in the 21st century. And secondly, could the puzzling observations of solar climate variability
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What really happens to...
Here the ocean's currents have trapped millions of pieces of plastic debris. This is one of five plastic-filled gyres in the world's seas. Places where the pollutants turn the water into a cloudy plastic soup. Some animals, like seabirds, get entangled in the mess.
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A curable condition that...
the lack of a lens would leave the patient's vision out of focus. Despite its low success rate, and high risk of infection or injury, couching is still performed in some parts of the world. Later procedures would also focus on removing the cloudy lens,
Video examples
Can clouds buy us more...
Every sunny day is the same, but every cloudy day is cloudy in its own way. And it's this diversity that can make the global impact of clouds very hard to understand. So to see this global effect of clouds, it really helps to take a selfie.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
gosh it's the first bit of nice life we've had all afternoon it's been very cloudy until now
Video examples
Jonathan Harris: The web...
This provides a slightly more statistical look at things. This is showing the world's most common feelings overall right now, dominated by better, then bad, then good, then guilty, and so on. Weather causes the feelings to assume the physical traits of the weather they represent. So the sunny ones swirl around, the cloudy ones float along, the rainy ones fall down,
Video examples
Jonathan Harris: The...
and it dies out very quickly from there. In weather, the feelings assume the physical characteristics of the weather that they represent, so that the ones collected on a sunny day swirl around as if they're part of the sun. The cloudy ones float along as if they're on a breeze. The rainy ones fall down as if they're in a rainstorm,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
plans lots and lots of spotted plans for the afternoon hopefully we'll get some sort of success at some point but it is a glorious day compared to this morning which was windy and miserable and cloudy we now have beautiful sunshine it's clear there's a bit of a breeze blowing that's still quite cool but otherwise it
Video examples
How I Got the Shot:...
done messed up I was using these seal decoy swarming doing aerial photography using spotter pilots this was just starting to stack up in a way that had me believing it might not ever happen since he said the what is very cloudy number one there's only one animal so the ones better than none once you check
Video examples
Finding planets around...
of our Sun's magnetic activity -- the kind of thing that happens on other stars as well. Just think, even when it's cloudy outside, these kind of events are happening in the sky above you all the time. So when we want to learn whether a planet is habitable, whether it might be amenable to life,
Video examples
Cloudy climate change:...
Firstly, how cloudy was the pre-industrial climate? And, hence, how much have clouds changed due to human activities? That knowledge will help sharpen climate projections in the 21st century. And secondly, could the puzzling observations of solar climate variability
Video examples
What really happens to...
Here the ocean's currents have trapped millions of pieces of plastic debris. This is one of five plastic-filled gyres in the world's seas. Places where the pollutants turn the water into a cloudy plastic soup. Some animals, like seabirds, get entangled in the mess.
Video examples
A curable condition that...
the lack of a lens would leave the patient's vision out of focus. Despite its low success rate, and high risk of infection or injury, couching is still performed in some parts of the world. Later procedures would also focus on removing the cloudy lens,
Video examples
Can clouds buy us more...
Every sunny day is the same, but every cloudy day is cloudy in its own way. And it's this diversity that can make the global impact of clouds very hard to understand. So to see this global effect of clouds, it really helps to take a selfie.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
gosh it's the first bit of nice life we've had all afternoon it's been very cloudy until now
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Luc Montagnier
French Scientist
They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
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Alfred de Vigny
French Poet
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Sebastian Koch
German Actor
We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.
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Magdalena Neuner
German Athlete
For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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Kelly Evans
American Journalist
Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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Robbie Robertson
Canadian Musician
People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
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Scottie Pippen
American Athlete
I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy.
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Anushka Sharma
Indian Actress
I'd advise people to never step out without wearing an SPF, not even on a cloudy day.
Quote examples
Luc Montagnier
French Scientist
They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
Quote examples
Alfred de Vigny
French Poet
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
Quote examples
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Quote examples
Sebastian Koch
German Actor
We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.
Quote examples
Magdalena Neuner
German Athlete
For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
Quote examples
Kelly Evans
American Journalist
Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.
Quote examples
Joseph Addison
English Writer
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Quote examples
Robbie Robertson
Canadian Musician
People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
Quote examples
Scottie Pippen
American Athlete
I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy.
Quote examples
Anushka Sharma
Indian Actress
I'd advise people to never step out without wearing an SPF, not even on a cloudy day.
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