CLOUDLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloudless mean? 

• CLOUDLESS (adjective)
  The adjective CLOUDLESS has 1 sense:

1. free from clouds

  Familiarity information: CLOUDLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOUDLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from clouds

Synonyms:

cloudless; unclouded

Context example:

under a cloudless sky

Similar:

clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)

Derivation:

cloudlessness (the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky)

 Context examples 

It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent’s Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I can well remember that in Navarre one day it thundered on the left out of a cloudless sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sky was bright and cloudless overhead, and the tops of the trees shone rosily in the sun.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke bright and cloudless.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not a bright or splendid summer evening, though fair and soft: the haymakers were at work all along the road; and the sky, though far from cloudless, was such as promised well for the future: its blue—where blue was visible—was mild and settled, and its cloud strata high and thin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I saw her, a most beautiful little creature, with the cloudless blue eyes, that had looked into my childish heart, turned laughingly upon another child of Minnie's who was playing near her; with enough of wilfulness in her bright face to justify what I had heard; with much of the old capricious coyness lurking in it; but with nothing in her pretty looks, I am sure, but what was meant for goodness and for happiness, and what was on a good and happy course.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I lay at the bottom of the boat, and as I gazed on the cloudless blue sky, I seemed to drink in a tranquillity to which I had long been a stranger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Outside, the stars were shining coldly in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out into smoke like so many pistol shots.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)