Overcast

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Covered or obscured, as with clouds or mist.
  • adj. Clouded over.
  • adj. Gloomy; melancholy.
  • adj. Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.
  • n. A covering, as of mist or clouds.
  • n. An arch or support for a passage over another passage in a mine.
  • n. A cast made in fishing that falls beyond the point intended.
  • n. An overcast stitch or seam.
  • v. To make cloudy or gloomy.
  • v. To cast beyond (the intended point) with a fishing rod.
  • v. To sew with long, overlying stitches.
  • verb-intransitive. To become cloudy or gloomy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An outcast.
  • n. A cloud covering all of the sky.
  • adj. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened.
  • adj. The sky is said to be overcast, when it is more than 90% covered by clouds.
  • adj. In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
  • v. To overthrow.
  • v. To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
  • v. To make gloomy; to depress.
  • v. To be or become cloudy.
  • v. To transform.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.
  • v. To compute or rate too high.
  • v. To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.
  • v. To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
  • adj. Completely or almost completely covered over with clouds; -- of the sky.
  • adj. Sewn by overcasting.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To throw over or across.
  • To cover; overspread.
  • To cloud; darken; cover with gloom.
  • To cover with skin, as a wound; hence, to have (a wound) healed.
  • To cast or compute at too high a rate; rate too high.
  • In sewing, to fasten by stitching roughly through and over two edges of a fabric. Also overseam.
  • To become cloudy or dull; become dark or gloomy.
  • n. In mining, an air-duct or passage which crosses above another passage.
  • In geology, cast or thrust beyond a normal position, as in a thrust-fault or overturned fold.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make overcast or cloudy
  • v. sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
  • v. sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
  • n. gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
  • n. a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
  • n. a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
  • adj. filled or abounding with clouds
  • n. the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
  • Equivalent
    cloudy   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sew    stitch    run up    sew together    semidarkness    whipping    whipstitch    whipstitching    cast    casting   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    darken    cloudy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    drizzle    rainy    murk    sleet    fog    wintry    smog    pall    sunless    cloudless