Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cloudful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cloud-ful
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.

adj

Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid.

noun

The amount contained in a cloud.

Example Sentences

"From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky."
"Or does some brighter spirit, un forlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good ?""
"Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I've wanted; […]"
"His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like.""
"One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!"
"A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree."

Etymology

From Middle English cloudeful, equivalent to cloud + -ful.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: cloudeful

Inflected Forms

more cloudful (comparative) most cloudful (superlative) cloudfuls (plural) cloudsful (plural)

Questions

What does cloudful mean?: Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
Where does cloudful come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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