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adjective

Misty adj. (compar. mistier; superl. mistiest)

Accompanied with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, a misty morning; misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight; to peer into the misty future. "The more I muse therein (theology), The mistier it seemeth."

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Etymology of 'Misty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Misty" Quotes from Famous Books

... in level England. It was a panorama, extending some twenty or thirty miles across the country, where, through woodlands and meadow-lands, flowed the silver windings of a small river. Here and there was an old ruined castle—a manor-house rising among its ancestral trees—or the faint, misty smoke-cloud, that indicated some hamlet or small town. Save these, the landscape swept on unbroken, until it ended at the horizon in the high ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... at that little table in the white-enamelled restaurant gazing at her across the bowl of tulips, I felt a strange, a very curious misgiving, an extraordinary misty suspicion, for which I could ...

— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux

... large expanse of sea lay around, dotted with its fishing-boats, which had come out with the night's tide. A magnificent vessel, her spars glittering in the rising sun, might be observed in the distance, and the grey, misty sky, overhead, gave promise of a hot and ...

— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood

... and with it a spell of unbearable heat. In country places and by the seashore there was space and air, and clean fragrant surroundings; but over London hung a misty pall, and not a branch of the dusty trees quivered to the movement of a passing breeze. It was a thunderous, unnatural heat which sapped every scrap of vitality, and ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... of examining her. Suddenly she opened her drooping lids, and casting a look that was still misty at M. Coignard and me, she began in a feeble voice, but with the tone and accent, I thought, ...

— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France

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