Overcast vs Sunless - What's the difference?
overcast | sunless | 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.
Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
* 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
* 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
Overcast is a related term of sunless.
In figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between overcast and sunless
is that overcast is (figuratively) in a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy while sunless is (figuratively) dreary, cheerless.As adjectives the difference between overcast and sunless
is that overcast is covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened while sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.As a noun overcast
is (obsolete) an outcast.As a verb overcast
is (obsolete) to overthrow.overcast
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* *sunless
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(en adjective)- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
- A stately pleasure dome decree:
- Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
- Through caverns measureless to man
- Down to a sunless sea.
- When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless , her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.