Antonyms for cloud
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : kloud |
| Phonetic Transcription : klaÊŠd |
Definition of cloud
Origin :- Old English clud "mass of rock, hill," related to clod. Metaphoric extension to "raincloud, mass of evaporated water in the sky" is attested by c.1200 based on similarity of cumulus clouds and rock masses. The usual Old English word for "cloud" was weolcan. In Middle English, skie also originally meant "cloud."
- The four fundamental types of cloud classification (cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus) were proposed by British amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772-1864) in 1802. Figuratively, as something that casts a shadow, from early 15c.; hence under a cloud (c.1500). In the clouds "removed from earthly things; obscure, fanciful, unreal" is from 1640s. Cloud-compeller translates (poetically) Greek nephelegereta, a Homeric epithet of Zeus.
- noun mass of water particles in air
- noun crowd
- verb become foggy or obscured
- verb confuse
- I wanted you to see the last of that town under a cloud, so you might not be homesick so soon.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He it is, too, that leaps from cloud to cloud amid the crashing thunder-storm.
- Extract from : « Fire Worship (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- For days a cloud hung over the fair image of Hester in his mind.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- There was indeed a sun that nothing could cloud, but it seemed to shine far away.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- He whirled about in his swivel chair, and blew a cloud of smoke from his mouth.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Then a cloud slid over the moon, and I 'most cried, I was so glad.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- He would willingly have accompanied her on the wings of a cloud to the regions of fancy.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- I'm under a cloud and so I want to keep here, as quiet as may be.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- I wondered if this were the herd, but found it was only the cloud of dust in which it was enveloped.
- Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
- On I rushed with the rest, hatless, and as in a cloud of fury.
- Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
Synonyms for cloud
- addle
- adumbrate
- army
- becloud
- befog
- befuddle
- billow
- blur
- brume
- darken
- darkness
- dense mass
- dim
- dimness
- disorient
- distort
- distract
- eclipse
- envelop
- film
- flock
- fog
- fogginess
- frost
- gloom
- haze
- haziness
- horde
- host
- impair
- legion
- mare's tail
- mist
- muddle
- muddy
- multitude
- murk
- nebula
- nebulosity
- obfuscate
- obscure
- obscurity
- ol' buttermilk sky
- overcast
- overshadow
- pea soup
- perplex
- pother
- puff
- puzzle
- rack
- rout
- scores
- scud
- shade
- shadow
- sheep
- shower
- smog
- smoke
- smother
- steam
- swarm
- throng
- thunderhead
- vapor
- veil
- woolpack
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