cloudy

cloudy

cloudy [cloudy cloudier cloudiest]   [ˈklaʊdi]    [ˈklaʊdi]  adjective (cloud·ier, cloudi·est)
1. (of the sky or the weather) covered with clouds; with a lot of clouds
Opp:  clear

• a grey, cloudy day

2. (of liquids) not clear or transparent
• The water looked cloudy and not fit to drink.
Derived Word: cloudiness  
Thesaurus:
cloudy adj.
• The sky was cloudy when we set off.
misty • • foggy • • overcast • • dull • |especially BrE, usually disapproving grey • |AmE usually gray • |often disapproving murky •
Opp: clear, Opp: sunny
cloudy/foggy/dull/grey weather
a cloudy/misty/overcast/dull/grey day
a cloudy/misty/foggy/murky night
Which word? If it is cloudy there may be a lot of clouds about while the rest of the sky is blue. Overcast, dull and grey suggest that the whole sky is covered with clouds.  
Example Bank:
• It stayed cloudy for most of the day.
• Later it will become cloudy with rain in places.
• Sometimes the drinking water becomes rather cloudy.
• The beer looked cloudy.
• The warm water is made cloudy by adding some milk.
• a rather cloudy sky
• It was a dark, cloudy night.
• Scotland and Northern Ireland will be rather cloudy with patchy rain.
• The sky was cloudy when we set off but it cleared up by lunchtime.

• You can still get sunburnt on a cloudy day.