cloudless

[ kloud-lis ]

adjective

1. having no clouds; clear:

   a cloudless sky.

Other Words From

• cloudless·ly adverb
• cloudless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cloudless¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See cloud, -less

Example Sentences

While this layer may not be as up to date as the Fresh Sat – Recent layer, it will have cloudless images of the area.

From Outside Online

The River Tweed meanders through the valley below, and on a cloudless day the lush, rolling peaks of the Scottish Borders mark the horizon in all directions.

From Popular-Science

The sunny, cloudless skies the team enjoyed for the first few days of excavation quickly gave way to “traditional Scottish summer weather,” Hunter says, “sunny one minute and howling winds and rain the next.”

From Popular-Science

A small yellow butterfly — a cloudless sulphur — captures my attention, flitting inside a red hibiscus.

From Washington Post

It was another still and cloudless day in Selma when the Friends of Forrest unveiled their replacement bust.

From Time

Despite the cloudless sky, I tried to convince myself that this also could have been an accident.

From The Daily Beast

Up above, a skywriter had scrawled a simple, competing message across the cloudless blue.

From The Daily Beast

The Southern sun shone from a cloudless sky; a light, keen wind blowing from the distant snow-clad Canigou set the blood tingling.

From Project Gutenberg

Overhead the smoke trembled upwards, a faint stain against a cloudless sky.

From Project Gutenberg

A frown momentarily darkened the cloudless brow of Aristide Pujol.

From Project Gutenberg

The sky was cloudless and the silver rays of a nearly full moon lit up the scene with an unearthly beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

"I hope it doesn't rain the way it did the other day," said Mollie, as she lazily surveyed a cloudless sky.

From Project Gutenberg