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Synonyms for cloud

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

shadow sully blacken shade mist obscure fog

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Shadow — to blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character)

shadow, sully, blacken, shade, tarnish, opaque, darken, blur, taint, dim, stain, muddy, obfuscate, smear, blemish, corrupt, besmirch, defile, denigrate, besmear rare

2. Mist

mist, obscure, haze over, becloud rare, obnubilate dated, befog rare

3. Fog — to become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight

fog, gloom

4. Bedim — to make obscure

bedim rare, bedarken rare

Other

overcast, vapor US, vapour UK, haze, eclipse, dapple, mottle, begloom rare, engloom rare

Noun

1. Cirrus

cirrus, cumulus, nimbus, stratus

Other

swarm

Antonyms

void, promote, glorify

All antonyms of cloud →

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

    The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

  2. v. 2

    To make obscure.

    All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.

  3. v. 3

    To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

  4. n. 1

    A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

Related words

Word family
cloudberry cloudbust cloud-headed cloudify cloudiness cloudish cloudland cloudless
Phrases
cloud nine cloud kitchen cloud cover cloud over cloud up mother-of-pearl cloud nacreous cloud polar stratospheric cloud
Other spellings
clowd

Forms

Plural
clouds → cirruses, cumuli, nimbuses, strati…
Past participle
clouded
e.g. clouded → shadowed, sullied, blackened, shaded…

Example sentences

  • shadow There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
  • corrupt The corrupt government officials fled the country.
  • stain I tried washing the shirt, but the stain remained.
  • defile I can't believe you would defile a gravestone!
  • mist The land could just be discerned through the mist.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
cloudrising
shadowrising
corruptrising
stainsteady
defilerising
mistrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
fog1, dim1
4 letters
mist1, blur1, haze1
5 letters
shade1, stain1, muddy2, vapor2, smear1, swarm1, gloom1, sully2, taint1, befog, bedim
6 letters
shadow2, opaque2, vapour, darken2, defile, cirrus2, nimbus2, dapple, mottle
7 letters
corrupt2, obscure2, eclipse2, tarnish2, blemish2, cumulus, stratus2, blacken2, becloud, besmear, begloom, engloom
8 letters
overcast3, besmirch, bedarken
9 letters
denigrate3, obfuscate3
10 letters
obnubilate

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (muddy2 = 2 syllables).