MISTY (mistier, mistiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: mistier    , mistiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does misty mean? 

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

1. filled or abounding with fog or mist

2. wet with mist

  Familiarity information: MISTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISTY (adjective)

Comparative: mistier   
Superlative: mistiest   

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:

mist (a thin fog with condensation near the ground)

mistiness (cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wet with mist

Context example:

the misty evening

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

mist (a thin fog with condensation near the ground)

mistiness (cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor)

 Context examples 

I feel in a misty and unsettled kind of state; as if I had got up very early in the morning a week or two ago, and had never been to bed since.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He took the way over the misty moors in the direction of Whitcross—there he would meet the coach.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His misty little mind had already made an unconscious classification.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Let me describe exactly the scene as we saw it upon that misty March morning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the misty, silvery night I could see no sign of any living thing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw my hesitation, and spoke:—The logic is simple, no madman's logic this time, jumping from tussock to tussock in a misty bog.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On either side, as the path mounted, the long sweep of country broadened and expanded, sloping down on the one side through yellow forest and brown moor to the distant smoke of Lymington and the blue misty channel which lay alongside the sky-line, while to the north the woods rolled away, grove topping grove, to where in the furthest distance the white spire of Salisbury stood out hard and clear against the cloudless sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)