misty

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
misty
    adj 1: filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October
           morning" [syn: {brumous}, {foggy}, {hazy}, {misty}]
    2: wet with mist; "the misty evening"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Misty \Mist"y\ (m[i^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Mistier}
   (m[i^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Mistiest}.] [AS. mistig. See
   {Mist}. In some senses misty has been confused with mystic.]
   1. Accompanied with mist; characterized by the presence of
      mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, a misty
      morning; misty weather; misty mountains; a misty
      atmosphere.
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   2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty
      sight; to peer into the misty future.
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            The more I muse therein [theology],
            The mistier it seemeth.               --Piers
                                                  Plowman.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "misty":
      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,
      thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, 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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