misty

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
(mĭs') pronunciation
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
  1. Consisting of or marked by mist: a misty rain; a misty night.
  2. Obscured or clouded by or as if by mist: far-off, misty mountains.
    1. Vague; hazy: a misty recollection of a dream.
    2. Full of tender emotion; sentimental: a love story that left us feeling misty and sad.
mistily mist'i·ly adv.
mistiness mist'i·ness n.

Top

adjective

  1. Covered by or as if by a thin coating or film: blurry, cloudy, dim, filmy, hazy. See clear/unclear.
  2. Not clearly perceived or perceptible: blear, bleary, cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indefinite, indistinct, obscure, shadowy, unclear, undistinct, vague. See clear/unclear.


adj

Definition: filmy
Antonyms: clear

Top
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Full of tiny water droplets floating in air. Also: Not clear.

pronunciation I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. — Thomas Hood (1798-1845).

LearnThatWord.com is a free vocabulary and spelling program where you only pay for results!

Random House Word Menu:

categories related to 'misty'

Top
Random House Word Menu by Stephen Glazier
For a list of words related to misty, see:

Misty may refer to:

People

  • Misty Copeland (born 1982), American ballerina
  • Misty Daniels, American stage actress
  • Misty Dawn (born 1963), pseudonym of adult film actress Laurie Rose
  • Misty Edwards, a famous Christian worship leader in International House of Prayer (ihop-kc)
  • Misty Hyman (born 1979), American swimmer
  • Misty Lee (born 1976), American professional magician
  • Misty May-Treanor (born 1977), American professional beach volleyball player
  • Misty Rowe (born 1950), American actress who starred on the TV series Hee Haw
  • Misty Stone (born 1986), American pornographic actress and model
  • Misty Upham (born 1982), Native American actress
  • Misty Woods, Welsh singer and lyricist

Characters

  • Misty (Pokémon), a fictional character from the Pokémon franchise
  • Misty Knight, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Misty Fey, a character from the Phoenix Wright game series
  • Misty, a character from the animated television series My Life as a Teenage Robot
  • Misty (Grand Theft Auto), a character from the video game Grand Theft Auto III

See also


Top

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - diset, tåget

Nederlands (Dutch)
nevelig, wazig, omfloerst

Français (French)
adj. - brumeux, embrumé, embué, flou

Deutsch (German)
adj. - neblig, dunstig, verschwommen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - καταχνιασμένος, ομιχλώδης, θαμπός, σκοτεινιασμένος

Italiano (Italian)
nebbioso, vago, indistinto

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - enevoado, vago

Русский (Russian)
туманный, неясный, затуманенный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - nebuloso, brumoso, borroso, vago, velado, empañado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - dimmig, vag

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
有雾的, 含糊的, 模糊的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有霧的, 含糊的, 模糊的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 안개가 낀, 눈물이 어린, 희미한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - もやのたちこめた, 薄ぼんやりとした, 漠然とした, 涙にかすんだ, 霧が立ちこめた

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) آنسه صغيرة, غامض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מעורפל, מכוסה דוק‬


Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights:

Mentioned in