1.
[syn: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty]
2. wet with mist;
- Example: "the misty evening"
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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. --Piers
Plowman.
[1913 Webster]
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"
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