to overcast

Examples

• All

• I do believe there are some human beings so born, so reared, so guided from a soft cradle to a calm and late grave that no excessive suffering penetrates their lot, and no tempestuous blackness overcasts their journey.

  Academic text (1992)

• The dark clouds began to overcast the sunny sky, signaling a storm was approaching.

• Above these mountains an angry sky overcast the dark clouds, lightning streets.

• The sudden rain caused the sun to vanish as it overcast the bright afternoon with gloomy weather.

Synonyms

C

to cloud

vsto overcast

56 4.4

To make something less clear or bright by covering it

covers the sky and creates a gloomy dull appearance

B

to becloud

vsto overcast

1 8.9

To make something less clear and hard to see, often by smoke, fog or strong feelings

covers the sky and creates a gloomy darker atmosphere

H

to haze over

vsto overcast

5.3

Look less clear as if covered by a thin mist

covers the sky more densely and produces a gloomy darker feel

Antonyms

C

to clear up

51 2.0

To become clear after cloudy or rainy weather

Compounds

O

overcast sky

3 2.5

A sky completely covered with clouds without direct sunlight

How Cloudy

to overcast

3.5

to cloud over

1 3.4

clear

866 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology