different between overcast vs dreary
overcast
English
Etymology
From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- +? cast. Compare Swedish överkasta.
Pronunciation
- Adjective and noun
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??v?-käst', IPA(key): /???v??k??st/
- (General American) enPR: ??v?r-k?st', IPA(key): /?o?v?.kæst/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?'v?-käst?, IPA(key): /???v??k??st/
- (General American) enPR: ?'v?r-k?st?, IPA(key): /?o?v??kæst/
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
overcast (plural overcasts)
- (obsolete) An outcast.
- A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon; cloudy.
Adjective
overcast (comparative more overcast, superlative most overcast)
- Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
- (figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
Translations
Verb
overcast (third-person singular simple present overcasts, present participle overcasting, simple past and past participle overcast)
- (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.
Translations
References
- overcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- overcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- overacts
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dreary
English
Etymology
From Middle English drery, from Old English dr?ori? (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear +? -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English dr?or (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d???i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d????i/
- Rhymes: -???i, -??i
Adjective
dreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary)
- Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
- It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
- (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
Derived terms
- drear
- drearihead
- drearihood
- drearily
- dreariment
- dreariness
- drearisome
Translations
Anagrams
- Ardrey, Drayer, yarder, yarred
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