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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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nebulous
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Middle French nebuleus, from Latin nebul?sus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *néb?os (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (néphos, “cloud”), Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”) (German Nebel), Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”). More at neveling, nuel.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?n?bj?l?s/
Adjective
nebulous (comparative more nebulous, superlative most nebulous)
- In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
- Vague or ill-defined.
- Relating to a nebula or nebulae.
Related terms
- nebula
- nebular
- nebulosity
Translations
Anagrams
- unblouse
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