Word.ws English Dictionary

overcasted

overcasted is the simple past and past participle of overcast.

Meaning of overcast

Verb

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.

See all 11 meanings of overcast

Questions about overcasted

What is overcasted the simple past and past participle of?
Overcasted is the simple past and past participle of overcast.

Words near overcasted in the dictionary

  1. overcarve
  2. overcarved
  3. overcarves
  4. overcarving
  5. overcast
  6. overcasted
  7. overcaster
  8. overcasters
  9. overcasting
  10. overcastings
  11. overcastness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overcasted (page history and authors); overcast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overcasted.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overcasted. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.