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100 Best Synonyms for “Overcast”

July 21, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. ashen pale gray in tone
2. beclouded darkened by clouds
3. blackening growing dark with clouds
4. blanketed covered all over
5. bleak cold and cheerless
6. brooding darkly threatening
7. charcoal-gray dark gray
8. cheerless without brightness or joy
9. chill cold and gray-feeling
10. cloud-dark darkened by clouds
11. cloud-filled full of clouds
12. cloud-heavy heavy with clouds
13. cloud-laden loaded with clouds
14. cloud-packed packed with clouds
15. cloud-shrouded shrouded in clouds
16. cloud-smothered smothered by clouds
17. cloud-thick thick with clouds
18. clouded covered or obscured
19. cloudy covered with clouds
20. cold lacking warmth and brightness
21. dark lacking light
22. day-dark dark for daytime
23. dense thick and hard to see
24. dim not bright
25. dismal gloomy and bleak
26. downcast gloomy in appearance
27. drab dull and colorless
28. dreary dull and depressing
29. dull lacking brightness
30. dusky somewhat dark
31. eclipsed darkened by blockage
32. enshrouded wrapped in gloom or cloud
33. fog-laden full of fog
34. fog-shrouded shrouded in fog
35. foggy filled with fog
36. frowning looking dark and threatening
37. gloomy dark and gray
38. glowering dark and angry-looking
39. glum gloomy and dull
40. gray dull and cloud-filled
41. grim harshly gloomy
42. haze-filled full of haze
43. haze-shrouded shrouded in haze
44. hazy obscured by haze
45. heavy oppressively dark or dull
46. hooded covered like a hood
47. inky very dark
48. lead-colored gray like lead
49. leaden heavy, gray, and dull
50. lifeless without energy or brightness
51. light-starved lacking natural light
52. lightless without much light
53. louring dark and threatening
54. lowering dark and threatening
55. lowery dark and threatening
56. lurid unnaturally dark and ominous
57. mantled covered like a cloak
58. melancholy sad and gloomy
59. miserable gloomy and unpleasant
60. mist-laden full of mist
61. mist-shrouded shrouded in mist
62. misty filled with fine moisture
63. murky dark and dim
64. nubilous cloudy or hazy
65. obscured hidden from clear view
66. oppressive uncomfortably heavy and gloomy
67. overclouded covered with clouds
68. pewter-gray soft dull gray
69. rain-dark darkened by rain
70. rainy bringing or having rain
71. shadowy dim and shaded
72. shrouded covered and obscured
73. sky-darkening making the sky dark
74. sky-veiled with sky veiled
75. slate-gray dark gray like slate
76. smoky gray and hazy
77. somber dark and serious
78. steel-gray gray like steel
79. storm-dark darkened by storms
80. stormy marked by storm clouds
81. subdued quiet and not bright
82. sullen dark and brooding
83. sun-blotted with sun blocked out
84. sun-dimmed with sunlight reduced
85. sun-hiding keeping the sun hidden
86. sun-obscuring hiding the sun
87. sun-veiled with sun veiled
88. sunless without sunshine
89. tenebrous dark and shadowy
90. thick dense and obscuring
91. threatening seeming stormy or dangerous
92. twilighted dim like twilight
93. twilit like twilight
94. uncheery not cheerful or bright
95. vaporous full of vapor
96. veiled partly hidden from view
97. weather-dark dark from weather
98. wet likely rainy or damp
99. wintery cold, gray, and bleak
100. wintry cold, gray, and bleak

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