cloudlike
- adjective
- /ˈklaʊdˌlaɪk/
- Flowers are fine, cloudlike puffs in white, pink, lilac, or yellow.
Examples
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Over the wide valley, a dim thin rain, the bluffs along the river grained like clapboards, and the prevailing wind blew a cloudlike mist along the tracks.
Academic text (1994) -
Seeing the cloudlike figure coming at him, he drew himself into a tight coil so that he could strike out if it moved any closer.
Fiction book (1994) -
His face gets a little pudgy, cloudlike with warm foolishness; it's for her sake, for everyone's.
Fiction book (1991) -
Though she had pitched forward, following her arm as if the dice she released had pulled her by invisible threads attached to her fingers, once she passed into the mysterious skypool, she had fallen upward, rising through the cloudlike softness toward a shimmering coalescence of light above her.
Fiction book (1994) -
A vast, cloudlike shape flowed across the sky, heading toward the opposite shore.
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On cold mornings, a heavy, cloudlike mist hangs over the surfaces of all the lakes.
Synonyms
Having a soft appearance like a cloud that is not clear
How Cloudlike
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Etymology
The word cloudlike joins cloud and -like, where -like means 'similar to'. So something cloudlike looks or feels like a cloud, often soft, light, or floating.