See Also: Misty(medicine)
misty(dictionary)
misty(dictionary)

misty (iou)



misty adjective.

Clouded, obscured, or accompanied by mist; consisting of mist. OE.
b. Clouded with fine particles resembling mist. M19.
c. Of the eyes: blurred with tears. Of a person: having misty eyes. M19.
C. Potok My father's eyes were misty..and I cried a little. T. K. Wolfe You would even see engineers..getting misty about those old days.
fig.
a. Obscure, unintelligible; vague, indistinct; confused. LME.
C. Gross The jurists had not yet shrouded the notion in misty complexity. M. S. Power He became one of her sweet, misty memories.
b. Not illuminated by reason, truth, etc. Formerly also, marked by or causing ignorance. E16.
mistily adverb ME.
mistiness noun (a) misty condition; (b) vapour, haze, mist: LME.