Cloudful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
2. (by extension) Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid.
3. The amount contained in a cloud.

Example Sentences

From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky.

Or does some brighter spirit, un forlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?"

Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I've wanted; […]

His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like."

One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!

A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.

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• more cloudful
• most cloudful
• cloudfuls
• cloudsful

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