cumulous

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A child points at a fluffy cumulous cloud in the bright blue sky.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling or consisting of cumulus clouds: Describes something that has the fluffy, rounded, and piled-up appearance typical of cumulus clouds.
   • Formed into a heap or mass; piled up: Describes objects that are gathered or thrown together into a mound or pile.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The sky was filled with cumulous clouds that promised a beautiful sunset. (The sky was filled with clouds that looked like fluffy heaps.)
  • After the harvest, the field was dotted with cumulous mounds of hay. (After the harvest, the field was dotted with piled-up heaps of hay.)

Advanced Usage

• Technical/Meteorological Context: In meteorology, "cumulous" is a less common variant of "cumulus," specifically describing the characteristic form of certain clouds.
  • The pilot noted the developing cumulous formations, indicating unstable air.
• Figurative Use for Accumulation: Can be used figuratively to describe a large, amorphous accumulation of non-physical things.
  • She faced a cumulous mass of administrative paperwork on her first day.

Variants and Related Words

• Cumulus (noun): The standard term for a type of dense, puffy cloud with a flat base.
  • Fair-weather cumulus dotted the blue sky.
• Cumulate (verb): To gather or combine into a mass or whole.
• Cumulative (adjective): Increasing or growing by successive additions.

Synonyms

• Heaped: Gathered into a pile.
• Piled: Formed into a stack or mound.
• Massed: Brought together into a large body.
• Agglomerated: Collected into a clustered mass.

Antonyms

• Disbursed: Spread out or distributed over an area.
• Scattered: Thrown loosely about; not gathered.
• Level: Having a flat, even surface without mounds.

Related Phrases and Idioms

(Note: "Cumulous" itself is not typically used in common idioms or phrasal verbs. The related noun "cumulus" is used in the following meteorological phrase.) - Cumulus congestus: A meteorological term for a towering cumulus cloud that is growing vertically. - The cumulus congestus clouds developed into a thunderstorm.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. thrown together in a pile
   • a desk heaped with books
   • heaped-up ears of corn
   • ungraded papers piled high