overcast

1. 1.

   make overcast or cloudy

   “Fall weather often overcasts our beaches”

   Synonymscloud

   Antonymsclear up

   Broaderdarken

   Narrowerfog uphaze
2. 2.

   sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches

   Broadersew

   Narroweroversew
3. 3.

   sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next

   “overcast books”

   Broadersew

1. 1.

   filled or abounding with clouds

   Synonymscloud-coveredcloudedsunless

   Similarcloudy

Other forms of overcast

plural

overcasts·

past tense

overcasted·

present participle

overcasting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overcast

What does overcast mean?

overcast means "the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overcast?

overcast has 3 syllables: o-ver-cast. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌkæst/.

What is another word for overcast?

Close synonyms include cloudiness, cloud cover, cloudiness, overcasting, cloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of overcast?

The recorded antonyms are clear up.

Is overcast a common word?

overcast is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overcast?

14 words rhyme with overcast. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.