cloud-ridden

English

Etymology

cloud +‎ ridden

Adjective

cloud-ridden (comparative more cloud-ridden, superlative most cloud-ridden)

1. Full of clouds.
   • 1915, F. Tennyson Jesse, “A Garden Enclosed” in Beggars on Horseback, London: Heinemann, p. 168,^[1]

     We saw the sea-grey slopes of olive-trees

     Blown foamy-pale, from the cloud-ridden air

     Fell the swift shadows on those leafy seas.

   • 1987, Giovanni Pontiero (translator), Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago, Orlando: Harcourt, p. 130,^[2]

     […] He then looks up at the cloud-ridden sky, one great sombre plaque, the colour of slate, he tells her, If wills are dark clouds, perhaps, they’re trapped in these thick, black clouds shutting out the sun […]

2. During which the sky is full of clouds.
   • 1895, Arthur Foxwell, Essays in Heart and Lung Disease, London: Charles Griffin & Co., “The Climatic Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis,” p. 240,^[3]

     I shall not dilate on the value of sunshine; there can be no need to do so to any dweller among the dun cold mists of our cloud-ridden winters.

   • 1995, Ardath Mayhar, Hunters of the Plains, The Borgo Press, 2008, Chapter 2, p. 15,^[4]

     The bright morning had turned into a cloud-ridden noon.

3. Covered or obscured by clouds.
   • 1885, “Bogota,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 71, Number 421, p. 49,^[5]

     […] the traveller […] with difficulty ascends from the parched banks of the Magdalena, the Sabana—with its encircling chain of mountains and the extinct volcano of Tolima, snow-capped and cloud ridden in the distance […]

   • 1985, Paul J. Curran, Principles of Remote Sensing, London: Longman, Section 4.4.6, p. 126,^[6]

     Mosaics are employed for the mapping of large areas of what is often cloud ridden terrain.

Synonyms

• (full of clouds): cloudy, overcast