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Definition: Clouded |
CloudedAdjective1. Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness". 2. Filled or abounding with clouds. 3. Mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow". 4. Unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clouded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: CloudedSynonyms: blurred (adj), cloud-covered (adj), overcast (adj), sunless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need. |
Concealment | Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded. |
Dejection | Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful. |
Hopelessness | Unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over. |
Imbecility Folly | Noun: want of -intelligence; want of -intellect; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; Adjective: imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence; (unskillfulness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clouded |
| English words defined with "clouded": Adnubilated, Aethrioscope ♦ Brocatel ♦ cloud, cloud over, cloud up, Clouded tiger, cloudy ♦ Infumated ♦ mirky, Mistful, muddy, murky ♦ Nebulated, nebulation ♦ overcloud ♦ Rimau dahan ♦ smoggy, Stormglass ♦ turbid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clouded": clouded agate, Clouded Cane, clouded woven fabric ♦ Fountain ♦ Glass ♦ hailstone bort ♦ Observatory ♦ Panthera sub-family ♦ rascality ♦ sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The Dark Side has clouded their vision. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) And my head was a little clouded with rage over a trusted friend stealing my child from meDamnit Cordelia! (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Clouded Dawn (1962) A Clouded Name (1923) The Clouded Name (1919) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Mental function is clouded by heroin's effect on the central nervous system. (references) | |
Given a diagnosis for which the efficacy of ECT has been established, the immediate risk of suicide (when not manageable by other means) is a clear indication for the consideration of ECT. Acute manic episode--especially when characterized by clouded sensorium, dehydration, extreme psychomotor agitation, high risk for serious medical complications or death through exhaustion, and nonresponse to pharmacological interventions--are also clear indications for ECT. The severe and unremitting nature of the patient's emotional suffering, or extreme incapacitation, are also important considerations. (references) | ||
Business | Since commercial vehicle production is primarily affected by the variations in national economic performance, and British manufacturers did not develop a diversified export trade, this contributed to the downturn in local business in the 90s. After these difficult trading conditions, the fortunes of the commercial vehicle manufacturers were beginning to be on the up until the economic uncertainties of overseas Asian and South American markets clouded the picture. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Growth prospects are clouded by the central and state government's consistent failure to live within their means. (references) |
Ukraine | In early 2001, a political scandal surrounding the still unresolved murder of a critical journalist and the publication of taped conversations purportedly made in the President's office have clouded Ukraine's international image. (references) | |
Qatar | The business outlook in Qatar was clouded because of the dip in oil prices and its effect on Qatar's purchasing power during 1998-1999. The current rise in Qatar's oil production quota and higher prices have bolstered business morale. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Clouded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 46.11% of the time. "Clouded" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 46.11% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 39.38% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.51% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "clouded": clouded countenance ♦ clouded over ♦ Clouded tiger ♦ clouded woven fabric ♦ sky slightly clouded ♦ slightly clouded ♦ slightly clouded sky. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "clouded": crimson-clouded, desire-clouded, low-clouded, pain-clouded, rain-clouded, steam-clouded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clouded leopard | 72 |
clouded leopard picture | 10 |
clouded sulphur | 3 |
clouded view | 3 |
clouded leopards.com | 2 |
clouded leapord | 2 |
clouded lepard | 2 |
clouded information leopard | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clouded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غائم (blear, bleary, clouded over, cloudy, dull, filmy, fuzzy, hazy, nebulous, woolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 覆盖 (Blanketed, Blanketing, Clouding, mantled, Mantling, overcasting, Overlaying, Sheeted, sheeting, Shrouded, shrouding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zatažený (cloudy, overcast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | traeleopard (clouded leopard), tildugget rude (clouded window), plettet skjoldbille (beet tortoise beetle, clouded shield beetle, clouded tortoise beetle, small green tortoise beetle), letskyet himmel (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), kaedetrykt stof (chiné fabric, clouded woven fabric), dugget rude (clouded window). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nevelpanter (clouded leopard), lichtbewolkte hemel (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), gevlekte schildpadtor (beet tortoise beetle, clouded shield beetle, clouded tortoise beetle, small green tortoise beetle), gevlamd weefsel (chiné fabric, clouded woven fabric), beslagen ruit (blurred pane, clouded window). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vähäinen pilvisyys (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), täpläkilpikuoriainen (beet tortoise beetle, clouded shield beetle, clouded tortoise beetle, small green tortoise beetle), sameta (become clouded, become turbid, get muddy), samentua (become clouded, become turbid, get muddy), hieman pilvinen taivas (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nébuleux (cloudy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bewölkt (cloudy, overcast, overclouded, overclouds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θολόσ (blear, bleary, blurred, hazy, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, thick, turbid, woozy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felhõs (cloudy, nebulous, overcast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendung (cloudy, overcast), keruh (feculence, feculent, turbid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | annuvolato (cloudy, overcast, overclouded, overclouds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 陰る (to be clouded, to be obscured, to darken, to get dark), 陰'る (to be clouded, to be obscured, to darken, to get dark), 潤む (to be bleared, to be clouded, to be dimmed, to be wet, to get muddy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うるむ (to be bleared, to be clouded, to be dimmed, to be wet, to get muddy), か'る (to be clouded, to be obscured, to darken, to get dark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 흐리게 하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oudedclay céu pouco nublado (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), tecido matizado nos fios da urdidura (chiné fabric, clouded woven fabric), pantera nebulosa (clouded leopard). (various references) cernit (black, blackened, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dull, dusky, gloomy, sad, somber, sombre, sullen), noros (cloudy, dark, gloomy), întunecat (black, blear, blind, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous), înnorat (cloudy, dark). (various references) nubado (cloudy, overcast, overclouded, overclouds). (various references) lätt molnig himmel (sky slightly clouded, slightly clouded sky), fläckig sköldbagge (beet tortoise beetle, clouded shield beetle, clouded tortoise beetle, small green tortoise beetle). (various references) lekeli (blotchy, dappled, mackled, maculated, smeary, smudgy, splashy, splotchy, spotted, spotty, stained, stigmatic, tainted), karanlık (dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), gölgeli (cloudy, cloudyly, shadowy, shady), donuk (blear, blurred, colourless, dead, diaphanous, dim, dull, dullish, frosty, glassy, inanimate, mat, Matt, opaque, toneless), bulutlu (cloudy, cloudyly, murky, nebulous, opaque, overcast, skyless), bulanık (blurred, blurry, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague). (various references) cymylog (cloudy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cassida nebulosa, Neofelis nebulosa, turbidam, turbido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de ofqalmoi leiaV asqeneiV rachl de kalh tw eidei kai wraia th oyei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed Lia lippis erat oculis Rahel decora facie et venusto aspectu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But Lya was with blerid eyen, Rachel fayr in face, and with seemly biholdynge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lea was tender eyed: But Rahel was bewtifull ad well fauored. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga mata ni Lea malomo man; apan si Raquel maanyag ug madanihon. |
| Croatian | Lea imala slabe oèi, a Rahela bila stasita i lijepa. |
| Danish | Leas Øjne var matte, men Rakel havde en dejlig Skikkelse og så dejlig ud, |
| Dutch | Doch Lea had tedere ogen; maar Rachel was schoon van gedaante, en schoon van aangezicht. |
| Finnish | Ja Leealla oli sameat silmät, mutta Raakelilla oli kaunis vartalo ja kauniit kasvot. |
| French | Léa avait les yeux délicats; mais Rachel était belle de taille et belle de figure. |
| German | Aber Lea hatte ein blödes Gesicht, Rahel war hübsch und schön. |
| Hungarian | Leának pedig gyenge szemei valának, de Rákhel szép termetû és szép tekintetû vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lea matanya indah, sedangkan Rahel bertubuh molek dan berwajah cantik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Lea itu bermata biuku, tetapi Rakhel itu elok parasnya dan cantik sikapnya. |
| Italian | Lia aveva gli occhi smorti, mentre Rachele era bella di forme e avvenente di aspetto, |
| Maori | He papahewa nga kanohi o Rea; he mea ahuareka ia a Rahera, he ataahua hoki ki te titiro atu. |
| Norwegian | Lea hadde matte øine; men Rakel var vakker av skapning og vakker å se til. |
| Portuguese | Léia tinha os olhos enfermos, enquanto que Raquel era formosa de porte e de semblante. |
| Rumanian | Lea avea ochii slabi; dar Rahela era frumoasq la staturq wi mkndrq la fayq. |
| Russian | мЙС 'ЩМБ УМБ'Б ЗМБЪБНЙ, Б тБИЙМШ 'ЩМБ ЛТБУЙЧБ УФБОПН Й ЛТБУЙЧБ МЙ"ЕН. |
| Spanish | Los ojos de Lea eran tiernos, pero Raquel tenía una bella figura y un hermoso semblante. |
| Swedish | Och Leas ögon voro matta, men Rakel hade en skön gestalt och var skön att skåda. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "clouded": beclouded, overclouded, unclouded. (additional references) | |
Words containing "clouded": uncloudedly. (additional references) | |
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"Clouded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: claded, clodde, clodded, Clouden, cloured, cluded, colude, Coludi, coude, Kaloude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clouded" (pronounced klou"dud) |
| 4 | -ou" d u d | crowded, enshrouded, shrouded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-l-o-u" | |
-1 letter: coddle, cuddle. | |
-2 letters: cloud, clued, coded, coled, coude, could, dolce, doled, douce. | |
-3 letters: clod, clue, code, coed, cold, cole, cued, deco, dole, duce, dude, duel, eddo, leud, lode, loud, luce, lude. | |
-4 letters: cel, cod, col, cud, cue, del, doc, doe, dol, dud, due, duo, ecu, eld, led, leu, odd, ode, old, ole, oud, udo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-l-o-u" | |
+1 letter: colluded, occluded. | |
+2 letters: beclouded, concluded, cuckolded, decoupled, unclouded. | |
+3 letters: cuddlesome, decoloured, duodecimal, outscolded. | |
+4 letters: duodecimals, edulcorated, overclouded, uncloudedly, undercooled, undisclosed. | |
+5 letters: confoundedly, dinucleotide, diplodocuses, duodecillion, nonscheduled, radionuclide, thundercloud. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 6F 75 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- ..- -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101111 01110101 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l o u d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 006F 0075 0064 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37788187707170 |
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