overcast

Noun

overcast (plural overcasts)

1. A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
2. (obsolete) An outcast.
3. A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.

Adjective

overcast (comparative more overcast, superlative most overcast)

1. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
   • The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs,
     And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, […]1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1

   Synonyms:

   sullen

2. (figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

Verb

UK/ˌəʊvəˈkɑːst/US/ˌoʊvɚˈkæst/

overcast (third-person singular simple present overcasts, present participle overcasting, simple past and past participle overcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) overcasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To overthrow.
2. (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
3. (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To transform.
6. (transitive) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.