cloudful

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The amount contained in a cloud.
    — One might suppose himself angling in Lake Avernus, with a cloudful of hobgoblins on each side of him!
形容词 adj.
  1. Abounding with clouds, clouded, cloudy.
    — 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.
  2. Dark, dimmed; troubled, turbid. broadly
    — His words, accordingly, proceeding from a mind "in a dark, hot, cloudful state," were "metallic, meteoric, ball-like."

词形变化

more cloudful comparative most cloudful superlative cloudfuls plural cloudsful plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cloudeful, equivalent to cloud + -ful.
词源 2
From cloud + -ful.
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