HAZY (hazier, haziest)

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Irregular inflected forms: hazier    , haziest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hazy mean? 

• HAZY (adjective)
  The adjective HAZY has 2 senses:

1. filled or abounding with fog or mist

2. indistinct or hazy in outline

  Familiarity information: HAZY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAZY (adjective)

Comparative: hazier   
Superlative: haziest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled or abounding with fog or mist

Synonyms:

brumous; foggy; hazy; misty

Context example:

a brumous October morning

Similar:

cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)

Derivation:

haze (atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility)

haziness (cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Indistinct or hazy in outline

Synonyms:

bleary; blurred; blurry; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; muzzy

Context example:

the trees were just blurry shapes

Similar:

indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)

Derivation:

haze (confusion characterized by lack of clarity)

haziness (vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined)

 Context examples 

For three days we made our way up this tunnel of hazy green sunshine.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin's knowledge of banks and checks was hazy, but he could see no reason why they should not give him the check on this day just as well as on the next.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The new technique shows the dramatic influence that hazy skies could have on our ability to learn about these alien worlds orbiting distant stars.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

In a hazy way I saw and heard men rushing and shouting as they strove to lower the boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The team found large quantities of the chemical on Titan, most likely in the stratosphere — the hazy part of the atmosphere that gives this moon its brownish-orange color.

(NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form ‘Membranes’, NASA)

Ocular pain which may be very intense, accompanied by corneal epithelium damage, conjunctival injection, lacrimation, blepharospasm, photophobia and hazy vision following corneal edema caused by overwear of contact lenses, principally the PMMA type.

(Contact Lens Overwear Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Hazy, swollen cornea.

(Corneal Edema, NCI Thesaurus)

Several research teams will use Webb to explore the mysterious nature of brown dwarfs, looking for insight into both star formation and exoplanet atmospheres, and the hazy territory in-between where the brown dwarf itself exists.

(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)

On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable’s length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately split.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)