'overcast' definitions:
Definition of 'overcast'
From: WordNet
adjective
noun
The state of the sky when it is covered by clouds [syn: cloudiness, cloud cover, overcast]
noun
Gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover [syn: cloudiness, overcast]
noun
A long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling [syn: overcast, overcasting]
noun
A cast that falls beyond the intended spot
verb
Make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches" [syn: overcast, cloud] [ant: brighten, clear, clear up, light up]
verb
Sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
verb
Sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books"
Synonyms of 'overcast'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- 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,
- CAT,
- ceiling,
- Cimmerian,
- 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,
- Stygian,
- substratosphere,
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tail wind,
- threatening,
- thunderheaded,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- turbulence,
- visibility,
- visibility zero