cloudy

Definition

Covered with or characterised by clouds.

Etymology

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.

Example Sentences

• "[…] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless."
• "a cloudy infrastructure"
• "cloudy marble"