IN THE CLOUDS

Definition: IN THE CLOUDS

IN THE CLOUDS

1. In the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Height

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Imagination

Ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial; illusory; (fallacious).

Inattention

Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping.

Crosswords: IN THE CLOUDS

You are in the clouds, and we are in the basement. (Goonies; writing credit: Chris Columbus)

They say the day you die your name is written in the clouds. (Out of the Past; writing credit: Daniel Mainwaring;)

A Place In The Clouds, A Foundation Of Stone (Wide Open Spaces; performing artist: DIXIE CHICKS)

Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones)

Walkin in the clouds (Why They Call It Fallin; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack)

Alone in the clouds all blue (Flaming; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Keep your head in the clouds. You're the first to know when it rains, and it's easier to see the silver lining. (references; author: unknown)

Cowboy in the Clouds (1943)

Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)

Murder in the Clouds (1934)

Won in the Clouds (1928)

Fun in the Clouds (1928)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Canadian scenes. Mountains in the clouds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Taking it from its root in the hold to its summit in the clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and is three feet in diameter at its base.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "IN THE CLOUDS": break in the clouds ♦ have one's head in the clouds ♦ live in the clouds ♦ rift in the clouds. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

разкъсване на облачността (rift in the clouds). (various references)

Czech

chodit s hlavou v oblacích (have one's head in the clouds). (various references)

Hungarian

fellegekben jár (have one's head in the clouds, to be in the clouds), álmodozik (daydream, to be in the clouds, to fantasize), álmodozó ember (have one's head in the clouds, star-gazer). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay ethay oudsclay

Romanian

trãi cu capul în nori (have one's head in the cloud, live in the clouds). (various references)

Turkish

hayâl aleminde olmak (have one's head in the clouds), dalgın olmak (have one's head in the clouds), aklı bir karış havada olmak (have one's head in the clouds). (various references)

Ukrainian

промінь надії (break in the clouds). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: touchlines.

-2 letters: cloudiest, consulted, cushioned, dishclout, eductions, lichenous, nucleoids, outchides, outshined, seduction, suctioned, touchline, unclothed, unclothes, unholiest.

-3 letters: cheloids, cholents, cholines, conduits, contused, couldest, counties, cutlines, delusion, diluents, discount, eduction, elutions, hedonics, hedonist, helicons, hideouts, holstein, hotlines, inclosed, includes, insouled, insulted, lections, linecuts, linocuts, neoliths, noctuids, noctules, nucleoid, nuclides, outchide, outlined, outlines, outshine.

+3 letters: underclothings.