Crossword-Solution: OVERCAST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Overcast | v. t. | To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. |
| Overcast | v. t. | To compute or rate too high. |
| Overcast | v. t. | To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERCAST | anagram | CASTOVER, OVERACTS |
We have 42 clues for the answer “OVERCAST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stitch to prevent raveling. | 1 answer |
| Ready to rain, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Not sunny | 1 answer |
| Like a bad day for tanning | 1 answer |
| Descriptive of skies. | 1 answer |
| Covered with clouds | 1 answer |
| Ready to pour | 4 answers |
| Gray, in a way | 4 answers |
| Weather condition | 5 answers |
| umbrageous | 10 answers |
| DESCRIPTIVE word | 10 answers |
| Not clear | 12 answers |
| intellectually slow | 13 answers |
| unclarified | 13 answers |
| MAKE turbid | 21 answers |
| cloudlike | 21 answers |
| Opaque | 25 answers |
| "Tragic" | 26 answers |
| drowsy | 33 answers |
| sunless | 34 answers |
| turbid | 35 answers |
| Unlit | 38 answers |
| Formless | 40 answers |
| filmy | 40 answers |
| Becloud | 42 answers |
| murky | 43 answers |
| misty | 47 answers |
| Nebulous | 52 answers |
| grievous | 61 answers |
| forewarning | 67 answers |
| Despond-ent | 69 answers |
| Muddy | 72 answers |
| Risky | 77 answers |
| Prophetic | 80 answers |
| COVER ___ | 81 answers |
| Clouded. | 83 answers |
| Gray | 86 answers |
| cloudy | 89 answers |
| Gloomy | 89 answers |
| Hidden | 98 answers |
| Mean | 110 answers |
| Dull | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERCAST (5)
The night was deeply overcast, heavy clouds riding low above the jungle and the water—only to the west, where the broad ocean spread beyond the river’s mouth, was there a suggestion of lessening gloom.
When he got out of the house, the air was cold and sad, the dull sky overcast, the river dark and dim, the whole scene like a lifeless desert.
The exquisite delicacy of this preparation may be imagined, when I state that in five seconds in the camera, I have, during sunshine, obtained perfect pictures, and that when the sky is overcast, one minute is quite sufficient to produce a most decided effect." "This very beautiful process is not without its difficulties; and the author cannot promise that, even with the closest attention to the above directions, annoying failures will not occur.
The ideals of physical freedom, of political power, of school training, as separate all-sufficient panaceas for social ills, became in the third decade dim and overcast.
But the red sun sank to his evening shroud, Where the western billows are roll'd, Behind a curtain of sable cloud, With a fringe of scarlet and gold; There's a misty glare in the yellow moon, And the drift is scudding fast, There'll be storm, and rattle, and tempest soon, When the heavens are overcast.
Quotes with OVERCAST (3)
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.
People try to get off the hook by giving excuses. Actually the reason why they are doing that is to try and get rid of the guilt which invariably accompanies such acts. They are trying to lessen their burden by passing on the responsibility on to others. They mix up excuse with reason. An excuse is an excuse and most certainly not a reason.. Be careful while accepting excuses because you may unwittingly take on responsibilities which were not yours in the first place. There’s…
I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1947–2023).