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cloudly en · ADJ

Etymology

From cloud + -ly. Compare cloudlike.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a cloud or clouds; cloudlike; cloudy; nebulous.
   • For a cloudly atmosphere (curves 2-6) with the growth of the optical thickness T of a cloudly layer the decrease of the contribution of the photons with the small lengthes^([sic]) of the run are observed in the receiving streams, […] 1994, Walter A. Flood, Walter Blaine Miller, Atmospheric propagation and remote sensing III, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers:
   • Here the redoubtable Ramm contracted his brow, clasped up his mouth, till it wrinkled at each corner, and redoubled his smoking with such vehemence, that the cloudly volumes soon wreathed round his head, as the smoke envelopes the awful summit of Mount Etna. 1824, Washington Irving, Works: Tales of a traveller; the conquest of Spain:
   • When the Shyr mutant was grown on this cloudly medium, there was a clear zone surrounding the colonies. 1987, American Society for Microbiology, Applied and environmental microbiology:
   • In acidified acetone, the above mentioned skeletons yielded yellow or orange organic solutions which float above a colourless cloudly aqueous solution. 1986, Comparative biochemistry and physiology:

Forms

Synonyms

cloudish