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misty

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
mist=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

mistya. [AS. mistig. See Mist. In some senses misty has been confused with mystic.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight; to peer into the misty future.  [1913 Webster]
    "The more I muse therein [theology],
    The mistier it seemeth.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misty, adj. (mistier, mistiest)
1 of or covered with mist.
2 indistinct or dim in outline.
3 obscure, vague (a misty idea).

Derivative
mistily adv. mistiness n.
Etymology
OE mistig (as MIST)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

misty

Dimness

N dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.

Opacity

N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.

Turbidity

N turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity, nephelometer, turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, cloudy (cloud), smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.

Invisibility

N invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance, imperceptibility, indistinctness, mystery, delitescence, concealment, latency, invisible, imperceptible, undiscernible, indiscernible, unapparent, non-apparent, out of sight, not in sight, a perte de vue, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, viewless, sightless, inconspicuous, unconspicuous, unseen &c (see), covert, eclipsed, under an eclipse, dim, mysterious, dark, obscure, confused, indistinct, indistinguishable, shadowy, indefinite, undefined, ill- defined, ill-marked, blurred, fuzzy, out of focus, misty, delitescent, hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed), full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

Unintelligibility

N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.


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