overcast

Meanings

Plural: overcasts

Noun

• the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
• gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
• a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
• a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
• A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
• An outcast.
• A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.

Verb

• make overcast or cloudy
  • "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
• sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
• sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
  • "overcast books"
• To overthrow.
• To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
• To make gloomy; to depress.
• To be or become cloudy.
• To transform.
• To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

Adjective Satellite

• filled or abounding with clouds

Adj

• Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
• In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

Synonyms

cloud, cloud cover, cloud-covered, clouded, cloudiness, overcasting, sunless

Antonyms

clear up

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