cloud

cloud is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
2. noun. A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
3. noun. A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
4. noun. That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
5. noun. A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
6. noun. A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
7. transitive verb. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
8. transitive verb. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
9. transitive verb. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
10. transitive verb. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
11. intransitive verb. To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.
12. noun. a group of many things in the air or on the ground

    "a swarm of insects obscured the light"

    "clouds of blossoms"

    Synonyms: swarm

13. noun. a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
14. noun. any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
15. noun. out of touch with reality

    "his head was in the clouds"

16. noun. suspicion affecting your reputation

    "after that mistake he was under a cloud"

17. noun. a cause of worry or gloom or trouble

    "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French"

18. verb. make milky or dull

    "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

19. verb. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

    Synonyms: dapple, mottle

20. verb. make less clear

    "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"

21. verb. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

    "sully someone's reputation"

    Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint

22. verb. make gloomy or depressed

    "Their faces were clouded with sadness"

23. verb. billow up in the form of a cloud

    "The smoke clouded above the houses"

24. verb. make less visible or unclear

    "The stars are obscured by the clouds"

    "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

    Synonyms: becloud, befog, fog, mist, obnubilate, obscure

25. verb. make overcast or cloudy

    "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"

    Synonyms: overcast

Synonyms

swarm, dapple, mottle, corrupt, defile, sully, taint, becloud, befog, fog, mist, obnubilate, obscure, overcast

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cloud:

could

Common word forms

clouds, clouded, cloudful, clouding, cloudless

Words from these letters

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