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Definition of Cloudy
Cloudy

Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

Consisting of a cloud or clouds.

Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.

Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.

Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.

Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

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Cloudy Quotations

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
Lynn Abbey

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
Christopher Meloni

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'
John Hench

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.
Simon Newcomb

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
Jerzy Kosinski

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?
Alfred de Vigny

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward

Cloudy Translations

cloudy in Dutch is onduidelijk, bewolkt
cloudy in Italian is nuvolo, annuvolato, torbido
cloudy in Spanish is nubado, nubloso, nublado
cloudy in Swedish is mulen


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