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cumuliform

cumuliform

9.9
A cloud with a round, fluffy shape like cotton in the sky
  • adjective
  • /ˈkjuːmjʊlɪfɔrm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cumuliforme
  • The sky was dotted with cumuliform clouds, promising fair weather for the afternoon.

Examples

  • The artist painted a landscape filled with cumuliform clouds rolling across the blue sky.

  • Look at those cumuliform clouds over there!

  • Meteorologists often refer to cumuliform structures when predicting thunderstorm development.

  • The sky was filled with cumuliform clouds today.

  • The artist painted a landscape filled with cumuliform clouds rolling across the blue sky.

  • The sky was dotted with cumuliform clouds, promising fair weather for the afternoon.

  • Meteorologists often refer to cumuliform structures when predicting thunderstorm development.

Synonyms

cloudlike
vscumuliform
1 4.0

Having a soft, fluffy shape like a cloud

specifies a rounded fluffy form instead of a general cloud look
cumulous
vscumuliform
  • Specialized
7.6

Clouds that are large, fluffy, and piled in heaps

describes a rounded soft form rather than piled heaps

How Fluffy

cumuliform
  • Specialized
9.9
fluffy
77 1.0
puffy
51 2.2
flat
797 1.0

Surface Forms

cumuliform positive

Morphology

cumuliform = cumulus (transparent) = cumulus + iform

Formed by the stem 'cumulus' plus the adjectival suffix '-iform' meaning 'in the form of', so the meaning is a direct 'in the form of cumulus' construction.

Etymology

Cumuliform comes from the Latin cumulus meaning 'heap' and the part -form meaning 'shape'. So a cumuliform cloud is 'heap-shaped', a rounded, fluffy pile like a cumulus cloud.