NUBILOUS adjective (noo-buh-luhs)

adjective
1. cloudy or foggy.
2. obscure or vague; indefinite.


Quotes

... it seemed, in their arbitrary disposition of the world's affairs, the Fates had ordained that Peyton's sky should always be nubilous ...
--*Montgomery G. Preston,*"An Eventful Evening," Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine," February 1876


Her azure eyes are nubilous.
--*Antoinette van Heugten,*Saving Max, 2010



Origin

The English adjective nubilous comes straight from Latin nūbilus, a derivative of nūbēs “cloud.” The uncommon Proto-Indo-European root sneudh- “fog, mist, cloud” lies behind the Latin words and appears as well in several Iranian languages, e.g., Avestan snaodha- “clouds” and Baluchi nōd “light clouds, fog”; Greek nythós “dark, dumb,” and Welsh nudd “mist, fog.” Nubilous entered English in the 16th century.