Overcast

English

Noun

Overcast (plural Overcasts)

1. (obsolete) An outcast.
2. A cloud covering all of the sky.

Adjective

Overcast (comparative more Overcast, superlative most Overcast)

1. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened.
2. (meteorology) The sky is said to be overcast, when it is more than 90% covered by clouds.
3. In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

Verb

Overcast (third-person singular simple present overcasts, present participle overcasting, simple past and past participle overcast)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To overthrow.
2. (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
3. (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To transform.

Thesaurus

Acheronian, Acherontic, CAT, Cimmerian, Stygian, adumbrate, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, becloud, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, black, black out, blacken, blackening, blanket, block the light, blocking the light, blot out, brooding, brown, bump, cap, cast a shadow, castellatus, ceiling, cirrose, cirrous, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudiness, clouding, cloudy, crosswind, crown, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dark and gloomy, darken, darken over, darkened, darkening, dim, dim out, dimming, dirty, dirty sky, dismal, dreary, dull, eclipse, eclipsing, empty space, encloud, encompass with shadow, enmist, extinguishment, favorable wind, fog, fogginess, front, funereal, gloom, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, grey, haze, haziness, head wind, heavy, heavy sky, high-pressure area, hole, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ionosphere, jetstream, lenticularis, low-pressure area, lowering, mammatus, menacing, mist, mistiness, murk, murky, nebulosity, nebulous, nimbose, nimbosity, nubilate, nubilation, nubilous, obfuscate, obfuscation, obnubilate, obnubilation, obscuration, obscure, obscurement, obumbrate, obumbration, occult, occultate, occulting, oppressive, overcloud, overclouded, overclouding, overlay, overshading, overshadow, overshadowing, overshadowment, oversmoke, overspread, pocket, roughness, shade, shading, shadow, shadowing, smog, smoke, somber, sombrous, soup, space, squally, starless, stormy, stratiform, stratosphere, stratous, substratosphere, sullen, sunless, tail wind, threatening, thunderheaded, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, visibility, visibility zero

Etymology

over +‎ cast

Pronunciation

Adjective and noun

• (UK) IPA: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ).kæst/, SAMPA: /"@Uv@(r).k{st/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈɔʊvɚ.kæst/, SAMPA: /"OUv@`.k{st/

Verb

• (UK) IPA: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈkæst/, SAMPA: /@Uv@(r)"k{st/
• Rhymes: -æst
• (US) IPA: /ɔʊvɚˈkæst/, SAMPA: /OUv@`"k{st/
• Rhymes: -æst

Translations

Adjective

covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened

Finnish: pilvinen (fi), synkkä (fi) French: nuageux (fr)

Russian: облачный (ru), пасмурный (ru)

meteorological term

Esperanto: nuboplena (eo)

Finnish: pilvinen (fi)

in a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy

Finnish: synkkä (fi)

Verb

to cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken

Dutch: bewolken, verduisteren

Finnish: peittää pilveen (fi)

to be or become cloudy

Dutch: bewolkt zijn

Finnish: olla pilvistä (to be cloudy), pilvistyä (to become cloudy)

References

• Overcast in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Overcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• overacts