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Definition of Clouded

1. Adjective. Made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance. "His face was clouded with unhappiness"

2. Adjective. Filled or abounding with clouds.

3. Adjective. Mentally disordered. "A mind clouded by sorrow"

4. Adjective. Unclear in form or expression. "Sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"

Definition of Clouded

1. Adjective. Filled with clouds. ¹

2. Adjective. Unknown, surrounded in mystery. ¹

3. Verb. Simple past and past participle of '''cloud.''' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clouded

1. cloud [v] - See also: cloud

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clouded

cloud up cloudage cloudages cloudbank cloudbanks cloudberries cloudberry cloudburst cloudbursts cloudbust

cloudbuster cloudbusters cloudbusting cloudcapt cloudcuckooland clouded (current term) clouded leopard clouded leopards clouded over clouded yellow

clouded yellows cloudedly clouder clouders cloudier cloudiest cloudily cloudiness cloudinesses clouding

Literary usage of Clouded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... rends the clouded air, Who in the heav'n of heav'ns has fix'd thy throne, Supreme of Gods! unbounded, and alone! 491 Hear ! and before the burning fun ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... to the Latin language ;(29) ana his style, though sometimes animated by the eloquence of passion, is usually clouded by false and affected rhetoric. ..."

3. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... clouded with darkness, and fettered with superstition; yet some of the seeds were now sown, which afterwards ripened into literature. ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"But the virtues of the best of them are clouded, and the vices of the worst of them are intensified, in the eyes of the British race by one common ..."

5. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"In gloomy arch above them spread, The clouded heaven lowered bloody red; Beneath in sombre light the flood gSt. Appeared to roll in waves of blood. ..."

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