cloudy

cloudy
adj
1. overcast, overclouded, overshadowed, shadowy, gray; somber, lowering, heavy, leaden, darkened, eclipsed; sunless, starless, moonless; hazy, nubilous, foggy, misty, Archaic. caliginous, vaporous, murky; moist, damp, drizzly, drippy, wet; humid, muggy, steamy.
2. obscure, obfuscated, vague, indefinite, ambiguous, nebulous, undefined, ill-defined; indistinct, blurred, blurry, bleary, out of focus, unclear; incomprehensible, mysterious, occult, veiled, concealed, unrevealed; baffled, bewildered, confused, muddled, fogged.
3. gloomy, saturnine, dismal, dreary, depressed, oppressed, sullen, glowering; sorrowful, mournful, lugubrious; clouded, troubled, worried, anxious, unquiet, nervous.
4. milky, emulsified, opalescent, opaque, nontrans-parent; turbid, unsettled, stirred-up, agitated; thick, dense, viscous, viscid; muddy, sooty, smoky, fuliginous.
5. variegated, mottled, blotched, maculate, spotted; lackluster, lusterless, dull, dim, dingy, flat.
6. questionable, dubious, doubtful, suspect, distrusted, mistrusted; disgraced, in disrepute, discredited, denounced, defamed; defiled, maligned, stigmatized, tainted, sullied, stained, tarnished.

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