clouded

clouded
    adj 1: made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in
           appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
    2: filled or abounding with clouds [syn: {cloud-covered},
       {clouded}, {overcast}, {sunless}]
    3: mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
    4: unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the
       group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the
       meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells [syn: {blurred}, {clouded}]
    

Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clouded}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Clouding}.]
   1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky
      is clouded.
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   2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a
      cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
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            One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
            Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. --Shak.
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            Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
                                                  --Milton.
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            Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty
            like prejudice.                       --M. Arnold.
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   3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; --
      esp. used of reputation or character.
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            I would not be a stander-by to hear
            My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
            My present vengeance taken.           --Shak.
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   4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate
      with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
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            And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. --Pope.
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129 Moby Thesaurus words for "clouded":
      Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, abstruse, ambiguous,
      armored, beclouded, blind, buried, calico, cased, castellatus,
      ceiled, cirrose, cirrous, cloaked, close, cloud-flecked, cloudy,
      coated, concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, cumuliform,
      cumulous, curtained, dapple, dappled, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty,
      dubious, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped,
      enwrapped, equivocal, filmed, floored, funereal, gloomful,
      glooming, gloomy, heavy, hid, hidden, hooded, housed, ill-lighted,
      ill-lit, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings,
      incommunicado, latent, lenticularis, loricate, loricated, lowering,
      mammatus, mantled, marbled, masked, motley, mottled, muffled,
      mysterious, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, obfuscated, obscure,
      obscured, occult, occulted, open, overcast, overclouded, packaged,
      paved, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, problematic,
      recondite, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret,
      sequestered, shady, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded,
      skewbald, somber, sombrous, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous,
      swathed, tented, thunderheaded, uncertain, unclear,
      under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps,
      underground, unknown, unsettled, veiled, walled, walled-in,
      wrapped, wrapped in clouds