overcast

IPA: ˈoʊvɝkæst

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

Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
(figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

Examples of "overcast" in Sentences

"A little bit overcast is actually a lot better than a sunny sky for us out there," Miller said.
The crew was last seen descending through thin overcast toward the target area and it never reappeared.
It has been such a boost to do this in overcast weather, that I have made up my mind to get a pretty calender for ever single room next year.
The early fall blast of intense heat follows an unusually cool summer that often found beaches covered in overcast and whipped by chilly winds.
At the airport he gave them a standard briefing and an update on the New York surface weather, which was stagnant under a low, thin overcast, with light winds and thickening haze.
The visibility was good enough to work, and although I found out to my surprise that the cloud deck at 8,000 feet was a solid overcast, I blasted out the code word for go and the strike was on.
On the morning of the 1968 crash -- during a spy mission shrouded in overcast, foggy weather -- the OP-2E Neptune's pilot radioed that he was going to drop through a hole in the clouds, according to a synopsis from