cloudilyadv.
/ˈklaʊdɪli/ 1. In a cloudy manner; dimly, obscurely; with darkened prospects.
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the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > opacity > [adverb]
cloudily1651
opacously1670
opaquely1747
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adverb]
deeplyc888
highOE
darkOE
dimly?c1225
darklyc1350
mistilya1382
murklya1400
subtlya1500
obscurelya1527
confuselya1530
diffuselyc1530
confusedly?1531
diffusedly1567
difficultly1568
indistinctly1580
enigmatically1590
perplexedly1603
subtilely1605
abstrusely1611
cloudily1651
oracularly1654
perplexly1670
reclusely1673
irrecognizably1841
Pickwickianly1866
delphically1927
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adverb] > obscurely
obscurelya1527
diffuselyc1530
infinitely1530
diffusedly1567
cloudily1651
shadowishlya1680
vaguely1781
nebulouslya1796
undefinably1796
undefinedly1827
hazily1830
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably
illc1325
contrariouslyc1380
amissa1425
contrary1497
sinisterly1529
overthwart1556
thwartingly1579
froward1580
adversely1593
crossly1597
unpropitiously1602
cross1603
disfavourably1654
cloudily1792
unfavourably1833
askew1858
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adverb]
cloudily1857
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 35 What..is this..that Mr. T. so cloudily talks off?
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 150 (note) in Poems When they [stones] looked dimly and cloudily.
1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 433 Things look cloudily for the aristocrates.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 303 This morning opened cloudily.
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1731 A. Hill Advice to Poets xxv. 5 Crowds of busy Cyphers Who..Cloudily bustling, fill'd a Realm alone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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