Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of or marked by mist: a misty rain; a misty night.
- adj. Obscured or clouded by or as if by mist: far-off, misty mountains.
- adj. Vague; hazy: a misty recollection of a dream.
- adj. Full of tender emotion; sentimental: a love story that left us feeling misty and sad.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Accompanied or characterized by mist; overspread with mist: as, misty weather; a misty atmosphere; a misty day.
- Dim, obscure, or clouded, as if by mist; hence, confused; not perspicuous: as, misty sight; a misty writer or treatise; a misty explanation.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Accompanied with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist
- adj. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist
- adj. wet with mist
Etymologies
- mist + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you zoom the map all the way out until the whole world appears many times over a pattern in misty blue and grey you will see – we are practically next door, and the little markers put their small green heads together and whisper of our happiness.”
“He called signals in misty breaths, then got decked when he let go of a pass.”
“The moral contradictions of this era of British crime are summed up in misty Cockney reminiscences of the psychopathic Kray twins: lovely boys, proper gentlemen, always treated everyone with perfect manners — well, except for the people they killed.”
“At night and in misty weather, patrols were sent out in the valley between ourselves and the Fascists.”
“To the northwest a single sharp hill, the "Mont des Cats," stood out against the sky; the rest of the horizon was unbroken, and floating in misty moonlight.”
“By this time the towering beast was once more upon its feet, and Peter was puzzling his head for an order he had forgotten; but just as some misty notion of the Malay words was hovering in his brain the great trunk encircled his waist, he was lifted from the ground, and the next minute he was gliding safely into the mahout's place, his widely outstretched legs settling themselves behind the monster's ears.”
“The celery aroma, which naturally turned out to be Galbanum, soon subsided into a gently green herbal quality, and the sugar turned into Orange Blossom and Lemon, leaving what I would describe as a misty fragrance with a touch of melancholy, like an early morning walk before the dew evaporates.”
“Everything about my work was dubbed misty, shadowy.”
“We waited while Bryan tried to recall his misty figures.”
“The familiar, undeniable good of the present has to be waived in favour of what 'common sense' calls a misty possibility in the future.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misty’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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beyond pale
Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
Not just colour, but also the ideas of impermanence, illness, weakness. (Just not the two noun forms – a thin strip of metal or woo...pale, pallid, wan, light, misty, ethereal, cream, dim, white, thin, waning, colourless and 62 more...
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Unite 2
unspeakable, unavoidable, snobbish, sluggish, sizeable, rocky, reputable, numerous, moody, misty, knowledgeable, justifiable and 18 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Cloudy
with a chance of mizzle
puff, nebulous, fog, overcast, becloud, bedim, taint, befog, dapple, mottle, sully, pother and 83 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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#1
Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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Unusual and Random Words
My Favourite Kind
quagmire, soliloquy, aardvark, topaz, ardent, exquisite, pyromania, pyre, extravagant, obscure, quetzal, quibble and 199 more...
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describe me
charming, afectionate, addictive, selfless, patience, drastic, fond, light-heeled, fragrant, delicate, care-free, natural and 95 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for misty.
nuxiy misty mountain
Beautiful example :) Mar 19, 2009
gangerh My sister's name.
'Misty' - various artists. (Play it again, Sam')?
'Misty Blue' - Dorothy Moore. Feb 9, 2008