misty[adjective]Synonyms: foggy, blurred, cloudy, dim, hazy, indistinct, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast
English Thesaurus: cloudy, grey, overcast, leaden, gloomy, ... [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
mist‧y /ˈmɪsti/
adjective1. misty weather is weather with a lot of mist:
a cold, misty morning2. literary if your eyes are misty, they are full of tears, especially because you are remembering a time in the past:
He paused, his eyes growing misty.
Whenever Maria sees a picture of her mother, she gets misty-eyed.3. not clear or bright
Synonym : vague:
Without my glasses everything is just a misty blur. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
cloudy with a lot of clouds:
The weather was cold and cloudy.
cloudy skiesgrey (
also gray American English) grey in colour, because there are dark clouds – used especially in written descriptions:
Mary looked out at the cold grey sky.overcast dark and completely covered with clouds:
a chilly overcast dayleaden literary a leaden sky is grey and full of dark clouds:
Snow fell from a leaden sky.gloomy dark and cloudy, in a depressing way:
The gloomy weather shows no sign of improving.foggy with thick low cloud that is difficult to see through. You use
foggy especially about low-lying places:
a foggy day in London in Novembermisty with light low cloud that is difficult to see through. You use
misty especially about places that are next to water or in the mountains:
a cold misty morninghazy with air that looks cloudy, because there is smoke, dust, or mist in it:
hazy sunshine [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲