Usually means: Sky completely covered with clouds.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word overcast:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. overcast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overcast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overcast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overcast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overcast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overcast, overcast: Wordnik
  7. overcast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overcast: Wiktionary
  9. overcast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overcast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overcast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overcast, overcast: Dictionary.com
  13. overcast (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overcast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overcast (app), Overcast (band), Overcast (disambiguation), Overcast, Overcast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overcast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overcast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overcast: Rhymezone
  19. overcast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overcast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overcast: Free Dictionary
  22. overcast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overcast: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overcast: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overcast (meteorology), overcast: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overcast: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
noun:  (obsolete) An outcast.
noun:  (mining) A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.
adjective:  Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
adjective:  (figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To overthrow.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
verb:  (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To transform.
verb:  (transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

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