Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cloud-ridden

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: cloud-rid-den
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of clouds.

adj

During which the sky is full of clouds.

adj

Covered or obscured by clouds.

Example Sentences

"We saw the sea-grey slopes of olive-trees Blown foamy-pale, from the cloud-ridden air Fell the swift shadows on those leafy seas."
"[…] He then looks up at the cloud-ridden sky, one great sombre plaque, the colour of slate, he tells her, If wills are dark clouds, perhaps, they’re trapped in these thick, black clouds shutting out the sun […]"
"I shall not dilate on the value of sunshine; there can be no need to do so to any dweller among the dun cold mists of our cloud-ridden winters."
"The bright morning had turned into a cloud-ridden noon."
"[…] the traveller […] with difficulty ascends from the parched banks of the Magdalena, the Sabana—with its encircling chain of mountains and the extinct volcano of Tolima, snow-capped and cloud ridden in the distance […]"
"Mosaics are employed for the mapping of large areas of what is often cloud ridden terrain."

Etymology

From cloud + ridden.

Inflected Forms

more cloud-ridden (comparative) most cloud-ridden (superlative)

Synonyms

cloudy overcast

Questions

What does cloud-ridden mean?: Full of clouds.
Where does cloud-ridden come from?: From cloud + ridden.

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