- cloud
- n1. haze, vapor, mist, steam, fog, Inf. pea soup; nebula, nebulosity, smoke, smog, soot, dust, puff; smoke screen, dust storm.2. pall, shroud, mantle, cloak, veil, screen, shade, shadow, cover.3. blur, smudge, smear, smutch, smirch; blotch, spot, blurred spot, blot, macula, patch; stain, macula-tion; speck, speckle, daub; blemish, tarnish, imperfection, defect, flaw, fault, mar, taint; mark, stigma, brand; soil, dirt, grime.4. despondency, despair, wretchedness, desolation, depression, dejection, prostration; oppression, hardship, misery, suffering; sorrow, distress, grief, woe; gloom, darkness, dimness; bewilderment, dilemma, confusion, perplexity; fogginess, obscurity, obscuration; occultation, eclipse; futility, uselessness, hopelessness, dark future; tragedy, disaster, ill fortune, catastrophe, calamity; reverse, reversal, setback, comedown, bitter pill.5. handwriting on the wall, ill omen, ill wind, evil star, gathering clouds, storm brewing, warning; skeleton in the closet, ghost, specter, scandal, bar sinister; trouble, affliction, ill fortune, thorn in the flesh, plague, pestilence, scourge, blight, bane; visitation, curse, evil dispensation, punishment; blot on one's escutcheon, disgrace, badge of infamy; premonition, doubt, suspicion, apprehension, damp, nightmare, incubus.6. throng, crowd, congregation, flock; multitude, horde, host, legion, storm, army, vast number, vast assemblage, galaxy, shower; swarm, dense mass; volley, flight.7. in the cloudsa. absent-minded, faraway, abstracted, not all there; preoccupied, bemused, lost in a dream, lost in thought, dead to the world; dreaming, dreamy, woolgathering.b. impractical, unrealistic, unreasonable, irrational, starry-eyed.8. under a cloudunder suspicion, suspect, suspected, distrusted; in disgrace, in disrepute, Sl. in the doghouse, out of favor, unable to show one's face.v9. overshadow, overspread, adumbrate, becloud, befog; darken, smoke, dim, bedim, dusk, blind, blacken; overcast, grow cloudy, gloom, darkle, promise rain; nebulize, fog, pale, mist, haze, shade, shadow; eclipse, hide, conceal, occult; frost, frost over; dull, blur, blear; shroud, cover, cloak, veil, screen, curtain.10. depress, oppress, overwhelm, overcome; distress, upset, disturb, unbalance.11. bewilder, confuse, perplex; disorient, muddle, mystify, baffle; obfuscate, obscure, complicate, confound.12. put to shame, humiliate, mortify, discredit, expose, gibbet; denounce, anathematize, degrade, defile, defame, slander, vilify, vilipend; censure, criticize, reproach; malign, slur, give a bad name; doubt, mistrust, suspect; challenge, question; stigmatize, mark, brand; taint, sully, tarnish, stain.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.