cloudy

Etymology

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.

adj

  1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
  2. Not transparent or clear.
    […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless. 2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time
    1. (of fruit juice) Containing pith
  3. Uncertain; unclear.
  4. (computing, informal) Using or relating to cloud computing.
    a cloudy infrastructure
  5. (slang, archaic) shady; sketchy; suspicious

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