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Color:
Cloud


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Colors with the same hue:
Pitch
Tar
Coal
Jet
Hematite
Tungsten
Smalt 
Soot
Egyptian blue
Faded Black
Dusk
Dim gray
Dolphin
Gray 
Weathered Gray
Dusty
Haze
Quick silver
Striking Silver
Dark gray 
Silver
Light Gray
Stainless Steel
Soap
Light silver
Sparkling Silver
Gainsboro
Chrome
Mercury
Ethereal White
Similar colors:
Silver
Light Gray
Stainless Steel
Light silver
Sparkling Silver
Gainsboro
Chrome
Mercury
Shimmer
Dark gray 
Striking Silver
Ethereal White
Quick silver
Shell
Marble White
Luminous White
Cultured
Haze
Dusty
Stark White
Whisper
Magnolia
Moonlight
White
Metallic silver
Porcelain
Weathered Gray
Soap
Aluminum
Soft Lavender
Words evoked by this color:
evaporating,  transpired,  humidity,  transpire,  eyre,  mizzle,  veiled,  permeate,  passing,  silent,  silently,  whimper,  hollow,  cadaver,  corpse,  tentative,  weaken,  helpless,  hesitant,  irresolute,  unacquainted,  hesitating,  hesitantly,  hesitation,  hesitate,  hesitated,  steamed,  turtledove,  cygnet,  silence,  noiselessly,  trembled,  tenuous,  exiguous,  exiguity,  unsuspecting,  tentatively,  uncommitted,  indecisive,  unsure,  vanished,  ghostly,  ghosting,  languishing,  languish,  hollowed,  apparition,  banshee,  wraith,  disembodied
Literary analysis:
Literary authors often employ cloud imagery not only to depict atmospheric conditions but also to evoke colors that mirror emotional and dramatic states. For instance, when a cloud is tinged with red—such as the “Red Cloud” that descends ominously in [1] or the “great red cloud” setting the stage for twilight in [2]—readers are invited to feel both passion and portent. In contrast, dark or black clouds, as seen in [3] and [4], imbue scenes with a sense of foreboding and melancholy, serving as a metaphor for inner turmoil or imminent change. Even the clear, sharply defined whiteness of a cloud, noted for its striking purity in [5], can suggest moments of calm, clarity, or beauty. In these varied appearances, the color of the cloud becomes a versatile literary device that captures the fleeting and often contradictory moods of life.
  1. Down, down dropped the Red Cloud.
    — from Tom Swift and His Airship by Victor Appleton
  2. The sun went down behind Vouziers and the roofs of the town were sharply profiled in black against a great red cloud.
    — from The Downfall by Émile Zola
  3. The cloud was black above, therefore, but Katy Dare made the world bright with her own sunshine, that day.
    — from Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. from the Mss. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest. by John Esten Cooke
  4. A black cloud driven by the strong east wind was passing over the moon, and for some moments it was almost impossible to see anything.
    — from A Tale of a Lonely Parish by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
  5. How singularly beautiful is a definitely outlined white cloud when it is cut by the ridge of a hill!
    — from More Pages from a Journal by William Hale White


Colors associated with the word:
White
Gray 
Light Gray
Silver 
Sky blue 
Pale blue
Soft Pink
Lavender 
Misty Blue
Pearl
Off-White
Ice Blue
Powder blue
Ash gray
Cream
Haze
Words with similar colors:
clouds,  erasing,  nitrate,  monocyte,  erase,  abele,  homogeneity,  ch'ien,  plane,  conscience,  ghost,  candor,  nucleus,  dove,  steam,  laboratory,  brevity,  cirrus,  magnesium,  erased
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