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# overcast

«overcast» in Mova's school dictionary: **Overcast describes a sky completely covered with grey…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (overcast); noun (the overcast — rare, weather talk)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Overcast describes a sky completely covered with grey clouds, so you cannot see the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#m1)

2) (weather report) An overcast day is dull and grey but not necessarily rainy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science weather lessons it is one of the words for cloud cover: clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, overcast. In stories a grey overcast sky often sets a gloomy or sad mood. Phrases: «an overcast sky», «overcast and cool», «a grey, overcast day».

### examples

- The sky was overcast, so we could not see the eclipse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x1)
- It was overcast all day but it never rained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x2)
- On overcast days you can still get sunburnt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x3)
- Write in your weather diary: Monday, overcast and cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x4)
- The beach looked grey and gloomy under the overcast sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x5)
- The forecast says overcast in the morning, sunny later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x6)
- Pilots fly above the overcast into bright sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x7)
- ‘Ah, your majesty, they have been scattered day and night upon the sea, except when the sky was overcast,’ slyly answered Maie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/#x8)

### note

Adjective; not used with «very» much because it already means completely cloudy. Overcast does not mean raining. It looks like a verb «over + cast», but in weather talk it is an adjective.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overcast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overcast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.