Meaning of MISTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mistee
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- [adj] filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"
- [adj] wet with mist; "the misty evening"
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| | Synonyms: | | brumous, cloudy, foggy, hazy, wet |
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| | Definition: | | \Mist"y\, a. [Compar. {Mistier}; superl. {Mistiest}.] [AS.
mistig. See {Mist}. In some senses misty has been confused
with mystic.]
1. Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of
mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty
weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty
sight.
The more I muse therein [theology], The mistier it
seemeth. --Piers
Plowman.
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| | Related Terms: | | addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, airy, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, attenuate, attenuated, baggy, beclouded, befuddled, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blinding, blobby, blurred, blurry, boyish, cat-and-doggish, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, dim, disorderly, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drumming, ethereal, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fogged, foggy, formless, frail, fuddlebrained, fuddled, fuzzy, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, in a fog, in a muddle, inchoate, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inform, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, lacy, light, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed, misted, misty-moisty, mizzly, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, murky, muzzy, nebulous, nondescript, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, pale, papery, pea-soupy, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, puzzleheaded, rainy, rare, rarefied, semivisible, shadowy, shapeless, showery, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoggy, soupy, streaming, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thinnish, thin-set, thin-spun, threadlike, transcendent, uncertain, unclear, undefined, unintelligible, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy |
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