hazy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ha=zy

CIDE DICTIONARY

hazy, a. [From Haze, n.].

•  Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.  Wordsworth.  [1913 Webster]
•  Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.  Mrs. Gore.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hazy, adj. (hazier, haziest)
1 misty.
2 vague, indistinct.
3 confused, uncertain.

Derivative

hazily adv. haziness n.

Etymology

17th c. in Naut. use: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

hazy

addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, beclouded, befuddled, bemused, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, clouded, cloudy, confused, dark, dazed, dim, disordered, disorderly, dreamy, dull, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, fogged, foggy, formless, fuddlebrained, fuddled, fuzzy, general, half-seen, half-visible, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, in a fog, in a muddle, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, low-profile, lumpen, mazed, merely glimpsed, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, murky, mushy, muzzy, nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, overcast, pale, pea-soupy, puzzleheaded, random, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, smoggy, soupy, stochastic, stuporous, sweeping, tranced, transcendent, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, unspecified, vague, vaporous, vapory, veiled, weak

ROGET THESAURUS

hazy

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.