as in hazy
covered over by clouds
the dark, overcast sky made the whole day seem depressing
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as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
an impenetrable fog overcast our view of the harbor
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Recent Examples of overcast
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
16 June 2026
Additional Tips for Streak-Free Windows Clean windows on a calm, overcast day.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
12 June 2026
Kaitlin Clapinski,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
Short term reversals shouldn’t overcast longer term progress, Reed added.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 July 2024
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Adjective
How to Split Daylilies The best time to split daylilies is on a cool, overcast day just before rain is expected.
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Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
16 June 2026
Additional Tips for Streak-Free Windows Clean windows on a calm, overcast day.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
12 June 2026
Verb
In spring, when the weather can go from sunny to breezy and overcast by noon, the jacket’s high-neck shape can provide extra warmth.
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Kaitlin Clapinski,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
Short term reversals shouldn’t overcast longer term progress, Reed added.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcast
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Scratches, streaks, and a hazy appearance are common results of treating oven glass like any other surface, especially when stains have been baked on for some time.
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Three signature beer varieties were poured by the craft brewery, including its Kit Kupker, an amber ale; Devil’s Paint Box, a West Coast IPA; and Honest Haze, a hazy IPA.
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The irony is a bit hard to ignore — the very environment being modified to protect or maintain beaches was simultaneously obscuring the ecological processes happening just offshore.
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And what’s a novelist but a fence, furnishing imaginary scenes with choice pieces of reality while obscuring their provenance?
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She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.
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In the darkened foyer, Ember contemplated this unassuming bit of paper, momentarily paralyzed by a mixture of dread and excitement stirred together, an overpowering sensation that oozed from the crown of her head, down the length of her body, then hardened, like a soft golden resin becoming solid.
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As these events unfold, Early’s earnestness blurs comedy and drama, to surprisingly heartfelt effect.
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To soften the look of this nostalgic floral, try blurring its edges to create an airbrushed effect.
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The lushly green Canary Island is a haven for trekkers, with more than 300 miles of walking trails lacing over mountains and through misty subtropical rain forest.
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Ciudad Perdida, Colombia Hidden deep within the misty peaks of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the ancient city of Teyuna—better known as Ciudad Perdida—is one of South America’s most extraordinary archaeological sites.
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Today, the skies seem to be darkening once again.
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One brush fire from the summer storm then split into two, and the raging flames sent plumes of black smoke upward, darkening the skies for miles and fouling the air.
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Within days of the pool being refilled in early June, the water had turned green and algae-clouded amid a heat wave in Washington, DC that saw temperatures reach 100 degrees.
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Smoke clouded swaths of Los Angeles for a sixth day Monday, after a fire broke out at a warehouse in the Boyle Heights area.
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Bringing home a colossal 85-inch home theater display equipped with thousands of active local dimming zones and AI scenario scaling for under $1,000 is an exceptional value.
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If economic prospects dim and companies face higher borrowing costs themselves, traders may turn elsewhere for safer investments.
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“Overcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcast. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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