misty
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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