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cloudless

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cloud  (kloud)
n.
1.
a. A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
b. A mass, as of dust, smoke, or steam, suspended in the atmosphere or in outer space.
2. A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.
3. Something that darkens or fills with gloom.
4. A dark region or blemish, as on a polished stone.
5. Something that obscures.
6. Suspicion or a charge affecting a reputation.
7. A collection of charged particles: an electron cloud.
v. cloud·ed, cloud·ing, clouds
v.tr.
1. To cover with or as if with clouds: Mist clouded the hills.
2. To make gloomy or troubled.
3. To obscure: cloud the issues.
4. To cast aspersions on; sully: Scandal clouded the officer's reputation.
v.intr.
To become cloudy or overcast: The sky clouded over.
Idiom:
in the clouds
1. Imaginary; unreal; fanciful.
2. Impractical.

[Middle English, hill, cloud, from Old English cld, rock, hill.]

cloudless adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.cloudlesscloudless - free from clouds; "under a cloudless sky"
clear - free from clouds or mist or haze; "on a clear day"
Translations
cloudless [ˈklaʊdlɪs] ADJsin nubes, despejado
cloudless [ˈklaʊdləs] adj [sky] → sans nuages
cloudless
adj skywolkenlos
cloudless [ˈklaʊdlɪs] adjsereno/a, senza nubi
cloudless [ˈklaʊdlɪs] adjsereno/a, senza nubi


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Tis thus, O boy, that Autumn comes, the cold Pitiless autumn of the wrack and mist, Autumn, the season of the cloudless sky, Autumn, of biting blasts, the time of blight And desolation; following the chill Stir of disaster, with a shout it leaps Upon us.
Sometimes they lounged at the steps of a church, and sometimes dallied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well-head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by the side of an ox-waggon.
Little wreaths of mist were curling upwards, and the sun shone down with a cloudless, golden light, every moment more clear as the vapours melted away.
 
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