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cloudy
English
Etymology
From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English cl?di? (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kla?di/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?a?di/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?kla??d?/
- Rhymes: -a?di
Adjective
cloudy (comparative cloudier, superlative cloudiest)
- Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
- Not transparent or clear.
- Uncertain; unclear.
- (computing, informal) Using or relating to cloud computing.
- a cloudy infrastructure
- (slang, archaic) shady; sketchy; suspicious
Derived terms
- cloudily
- cloudiness
Translations
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cloudi, clowdy, clowdie
- (Early ME) cludi?
Etymology
From Old English cl?di?; equivalent to cloud +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klu?di?/
Adjective
cloudy
- Covered with or characterised by clouds; clouded.
- Not transparent or clear; murky, gloomy.
- (rare) Inspiring dread; scary, frightening.
- (rare) Featuring rocks; rocky, stony.
Related terms
- cloudy
Descendants
- English: cloudy
- Scots: cluddy, cloody
References
- “cl?ud?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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dismal
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman dismal, from Old French (li) dis mals ("(the) bad days"), from Medieval Latin di?s (“day”) m?l? (“bad”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?zm?l/
- Rhymes: -?zm?l
Adjective
dismal (comparative more dismal, superlative most dismal)
- Disastrous, calamitous
- Disappointingly inadequate.
- Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
- Depressing, dreary, cheerless.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "dismal" is often applied: failure, performance, state, record, place, result, scene, season, year, economy, future, fate, weather, news, condition, history.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cheerless
Derived terms
- dismal science
Translations
Anagrams
- almids
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