Overcast vs Nebulous - What's the difference?
overcast | nebulous | Related terms |
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened.
(meteorology) The sky is said to be overcast , when it is more than 90% covered by clouds.
(figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
(obsolete) To overthrow.
To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
To make gloomy; to depress.
(obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
(obsolete) To transform.
In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
Vague or ill-defined.
* 1915 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Relating to a nebula or nebulae.
Overcast is a related term of nebulous.
As adjectives the difference between overcast and nebulous
is that overcast is covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened while nebulous is in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.As a noun overcast
is (obsolete) an outcast.As a verb overcast
is (obsolete) to overthrow.overcast
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References
* *nebulous
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(en adjective)- The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.
