cloud-ridden

comparative more cloud-ridden · superlative most cloud-ridden

1. Full of clouds.

   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.

   1915, F. Tennyson Jesse, “A Garden Enclosed”, in Beggars on Horseback, London: Heinemann, page 168

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   […] 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 […]

   1987, José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero, Baltasar and Blimunda, Orlando: Harcourt, page 130

   Synonyms: cloudy, overcast

2. During which the sky is full of clouds.

   The bright morning had turned into a cloud-ridden noon.

   1995, Ardath Mayhar, chapter 2, in Hunters of the Plains, The Borgo Press, published 2008, page 15

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   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.

   1895, Arthur Foxwell, “The Climatic Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis”, in Essays in Heart and Lung Disease, London: Charles Griffin & Co, page 240

3. Covered or obscured by clouds.

   Mosaics are employed for the mapping of large areas of what is often cloud ridden terrain.

   1985, Paul J. Curran, Principles of Remote Sensing, London: Longman, Section 4.4.6, p. 126

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   […] 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 […]

   1885, “Bogota”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume 71, number 421, page 49