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Adjective overcast has 1 sense
- cloud-covered, clouded, overcast, sunless - filled or abounding with clouds
Antonym: clear (indirect, via cloudy)
Noun overcast has 4 senses
- cloudiness, cloud cover, overcast - the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
--1 is a kind of bad weather, inclemency, inclementness
- cloudiness, overcast - gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
--2 is a kind of semidarkness
- overcast, overcasting - a long whip stitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
--3 is a kind of stitch
- overcast - a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
--4 is a kind of casting, cast
Verb overcast has 3 senses
- overcast, cloud - make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
--1 is one way to darken
Antonyms: clear up, clear, light up, brighten
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- overcast - sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
--2 is one way to sew, run up, sew together, stitch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- overcast - sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books"
--3 is one way to sew, run up, sew together, stitch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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