Synonyms of cloudy

cloudy

adjective

ˈklau̇-dē 

1

as in muddy

having visible particles in liquid suspension

the water coming out of the faucet was unusually cloudy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• muddy
• turbid
• murky
• muddied
• hazy
• dingy
• unfiltered
• roiled
• muddled
• puddled
• scummy
• filmy
• riley
• opaque
• sludgy
• inky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• crystalline
• crystal clear
• filtered
• colorless
• purified
• transparent
• uncolored
• clarified

2

as in hazy

covered over by clouds

the skies grew cloudy and we headed home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hazy
• clouded
• darkened
• overcast
• misty
• murky
• gray
• bleak
• dark
• dull
• overclouded
• beclouded
• hazed
• lowering
• heavy
• dim
• obscured
• blackened
• dusky
• dimmed
• obscure
• black
• dulled
• gloomy
• darksome
• dreary
• cheerless
• somber
• dismal
• desolate
• sullen
• bedimmed
• overshadowed
• befogged
• glum
• drear
• sepulchral
• sunless
• funereal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• cloudless
• sunny
• sunlit
• sunshiny
• brilliant
• shiny
• radiant
• dazzling
• illuminated
• lit
• illumined
• lightened
• brightened

3

as in misty

filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension

the room grew cloudy with smoke from the fire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hazy
• misty
• rainy
• murky
• clouded
• foggy
• smoggy
• thick
• milky
• smoky
• overcast
• soupy
• muddy
• gauzy
• beclouded
• befogged
• turbid
• stormy
• brumous
• slimy
• slushy
• mucky
• smudgy
• opaque
• sooty
• miasmatic
• dirty
• miasmic
• filmy
• miasmal
• miry

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clear
• cloudless
• limpid
• bright
• clean
• sunny
• unclouded
• pellucid
• fair
• transparent
• translucent
• sunshiny
• clement

4

as in dark

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

after his third failed marriage, he seemed destined to live the rest of his life in a permanently cloudy mood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dark
• bleak
• somber
• lonely
• depressing
• murky
• depressive
• darkening
• desolate
• cold
• gray
• solemn
• blue
• miserable
• lonesome
• morbid
• gloomy
• black
• depressed
• chill
• dreary
• dismal
• cheerless
• morose
• sullen
• sad
• wretched
• glum
• funereal
• oppressive
• drear
• disconsolate
• lugubrious
• saturnine
• forlorn
• dire
• melancholy
• comfortless
• sepulchral
• elegiac
• dreich
• sunless
• dull
• dim
• unhappy
• tenebrous
• godforsaken
• plutonian
• melancholic
• negative
• Cimmerian
• dejected
• hopeless
• desperate
• mournful
• grim
• low
• discouraging
• droopy
• tenebrific
• pessimistic
• mirthless
• woebegone
• dispiriting
• despondent
• woeful
• distressing
• colorless
• distressful
• inconsolable
• disheartening
• dismaying
• menacing
• upsetting
• drab
• down
• sorrowful
• lamentable
• dour
• hangdog
• discomfiting
• plaintive
• threatening
• lowering
• lowery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bright
• cheerful
• friendly
• sunshiny
• cheery
• festive
• gay
• cordial
• comforting
• buoyant
• joyful
• merry
• joyous
• jolly
• gay
• optimistic
• mirthful
• blithe
• hopeful
• encouraging
• cheering
• heartwarming
• blithesome
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cloudy

Article continues below this ad By Wednesday afternoon, temperatures are expected to reach 93 to 95 degrees under partly cloudy skies, but heat index values could peak as high as 104 degrees. — Newsroom Meteorologist, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026

On a cloudy August Sunday, Drew Desbordes—best known as Druski—rolls his ebike into the hallway of his temporary Manhattan apartment. — Lucy Feldman, Time, 30 Sep. 2026

Flight controllers can establish precise safety thresholds to reduce unnecessary launch cancellations in cloudy or light-rain conditions, minimizing costly operational delays. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

That could improve the rearview mirror look without necessarily changing the road ahead as the outlook remains cloudy. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026