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misty

adj
/ˈmɪsti/

Etymology

From Middle English misty, mysty, misti, from Old English mistiġ (“misty, dark”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistig (“misty”), equivalent to mist + -y. Cognate with Scots misty, mistie (“misty”), West Frisian mistich (“misty, foggy”), Dutch mistig (“misty, foggy”), German Low German mistig (“foggy”).

  1. inherited from *mistig✻ — “misty”
  2. inherited from mistiġ — “misty, dark”
  3. inherited from misty

Definitions

  1. Covered in mist

    Covered in mist; foggy.

    • It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!

  2. Dim

    Dim; vague; obscure.

    • a misty memory of his childhood
    • My remembrances of the place and its people are misty — all about it seem more like something I once saw in a dream, but whose characters time has effaced.
    • Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.

  3. With tears in the eyes

    With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

    • Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.

    2. A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.

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Derived

get misty, mistily, misty-eyed, misty flip, mistyish, misty rose, unmisty

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA