Word Study
hazy
CIDE DICTIONARY
- 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.
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, weakROGET 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.For further exploring for "hazy" in Webster Dictionary Online