Synonyms for cloud

noun

  1. Fog at a distance from the earth

    haze, mist, rack, fogginess, haziness, film, puff, billow, frost, nebula, nebulosity, vapor, veil, cloud cover, cloudiness, overcast, pall.

    Types of clouds include: cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altostratus, altocumulus, cumulonimbus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus; woolpack*, scud*, meteor*, curl-cloud*, mare's tail*, colt's tail*, cat's tail*, mackerel sky*, thunderhead*, sheep*.

  2. Any nebulous mass

    smoke, dust, vapor, dimness; see sense 1, darkness 1, fog 1.

  3. Anything ominous

    pall, spot, fault, blemish, dark spot, stain, shadow, flaw, blotch, obscurity, gloom; see also warning.

in the clouds
under a cloud
  1. suspect, dubious, under suspicion, in disgrace; see disgraced, suspicious 2.

  2. depressed, worried, sad;

See cloud in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


noun

A very large number of things grouped together:

army, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck1, score (used in plural), swarm, throng. See big, group
verb
  1. To make dim or indistinct:

    becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blur, dim, dull, eclipse, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shadow. See clear
  2. To contaminate the reputation of:

    befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, denigrate, dirty, smear, smudge, smut, soil, spatter, stain, sully, taint, tarnish. Idioms: give a black eye to, sling (or throw) mud on. See attack, clean

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