overcloud

Other forms of overcloud

past tense

overclouded·

present participle

overclouding·

third person

overclouds·

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 overcloud

What does overcloud mean?

overcloud means "become covered with clouds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overcloud?

overcloud has 3 syllables: o-ver-cloud. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for overcloud?

Close synonyms include cloud over, cloud up, obscure, bedim. 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.

Is overcloud a common word?

overcloud 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.