5. handwriting on the wall, ill omen, ill wind, evil star, gathering clouds, storm brewing, warning; skeleton in the closet, ghost, specter, scandal, bar sinister; trouble, affliction, ill fortune, thorn in the flesh, plague, pestilence, scourge, blight, bane; visitation, curse, evil dispensation, punishment; blot on one's escutcheon, disgrace, badge of infamy; premonition, doubt, suspicion, apprehension, damp, nightmare, incubus.
6. throng, crowd, congregation, flock; multitude, horde, host, legion, storm, army, vast number, vast assemblage, galaxy, shower; swarm, dense mass; volley, flight.
7. in the clouds a.
absent-minded, faraway, abstracted, not all there; preoccupied, bemused, lost in a dream, lost in thought, dead to the world; dreaming, dreamy, woolgathering, b. impractical, unrealistic, unreasonable, irrational, starry-eyed.
8. under a cloud under suspicion, suspect, suspected, distrusted; in disgrace, in disrepute, SI. in the doghouse, out of favor, unable to show one's face.
-v. 9. overshadow, overspread, adumbrate, becloud, befog; darken, smoke, dim, bedim, dusk, blind, blacken; overcast, grow cloudy, gloom, darkle, promise rain; nebulize, fog, pale, mist, haze, shade, shadow; eclipse, hide, conceal, occult; frost, frost over; dull, blur, blear; shroud, cover, cloak, veil, screen, curtain.
10. depress, oppress, overwhelm, overcome; distress, upset, disturb, unbalance.
11. bewilder, confuse, perplex; disorient, muddle, mystify, baffle; obfuscate, obscure, complicate, confound.
12. put to shame, humiliate, mortify, discredit, expose, gibbet; denounce, anathematize, degrade, defile, defame, slander, vilify, vilipend; censure, criticize, reproach; malign, slur, give a bad name; doubt, mistrust, suspect; challenge, question; stigmatize, mark, brand; taint, sully, tarnish, stain. cloudburst, n. shower, downpour, torrent, rainstorm, driving rain, pouring rain; raining cats and dogs; deluge, inundation, cataract, flood, flash flood,
cloudy, adj. 1. overcast, overclouded, overshadowed, shadowy, gray; somber, lowering, heavy, leaden, darkened, eclipsed; sunless, starless, moonless; hazy, nubilous, foggy, misty, Archaic, caliginous, vaporous, murky; moist, damp, drizzly, drippy, wet; humid, muggy, steamy.
2. obscure, obfuscated, vague, indefinite, ambiguous, nebulous, undefined, ill-defined; indistinct, blurred, blurry, bleary, out of focus, unclear; incomprehensible, mysterious, occult, veiled, concealed, unrevealed; baffled, bewildered, confused, muddled, fogged.
3. gloomy, saturnine, dismal, dreary, depressed, oppressed, sullen, glowering; sorrowful, mournful, lugubrious; clouded, troubled, worried, anxious, unquiet, nervous.
4. milky, emulsified, opalescent, opaque, nontransparent; turbid, unsettled, stirred-up, agitated; thick, dense, viscous, viscid; muddy, sooty, smoky, fuliginous.
5. variegated, mottled, blotched, maculate, spotted; lackluster, lusterless, dull, dim, dingy, flat.
6. questionable, dubious, doubtful, suspect, distrusted, mistrusted; disgraced, in disrepute, discredited, denounced, defamed; defiled, maligned, stigmatized, tainted, sullied, stained, tarnished.