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cloud
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- pronunciation:
- klaUd
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- phrases:
- cloud up
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word History, Word Builder
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a visible body, usu. white or gray, of fine water droplets high in the earth's atmosphere.
- similar words:
- cirrus, cumulus, fog, haze, mist, nebula, nimbus, pea soup, smog, smoke, steam, stratus, vapor
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| definition 2: |
a similar body of other types of matter such as dust or smoke.
- similar words:
- fog, haze, nebula, puff, smog, smoke, swarm, throng, vapor
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| definition 3: |
something that obscures or darkens.
- synonyms:
- pall, veil
- similar words:
- cloak, mantle, mist, screen, shade, shroud
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| related words: |
chill, fume |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
clouds, clouding, clouded |
| definition 1: |
to cover or darken with clouds or as if by clouds.
- synonyms:
- becloud, cover, darken, overcast, overshadow
- similar words:
- bedim, befog, cloak, dim, fog, mist, muddy, shade, shroud
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| definition 2: |
to make sad or otherwise difficult; trouble.
Illness clouded her childhood.- synonyms:
- afflict, plague, trouble, vex
- similar words:
- annoy, bother, pain, sadden, shadow
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| definition 3: |
to blemish; sully.
His reputation was clouded by a criminal conviction.- synonyms:
- blemish, defame, defile, stain, sully, taint, tarnish
- similar words:
- degrade, discredit, malign, mar, slur, spoil
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| related words: |
eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, occlude, screen, veil |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to become filled or covered by clouds, steam, or the like (often fol. by "up").
It was sunny in the morning, but it clouded up in the early afternoon.Her glasses clouded up when she entered the warm room after being out in the cold.- synonyms:
- darken, fog
- similar words:
- dim, gloom, mist, overcast
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| definition 2: |
to show anxiety or distress.
Her face clouded with worry.- similar words:
- trouble
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| related words: |
blur |
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| phrase: |
cloud up |
| derivations: |
cloudless (adj.), cloudlike (adj.) |
Cloud is from clud, an Old English word that means "rock or hill," and from clouden which means "to dim or darken."
Word Builder: cloud +
- cloudy:
having many clouds.
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