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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Misty \Mist"y\ (m[i^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Mistier}
     (m[i^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Mistiest}.] [AS. mistig. See
     {Mist}. In some senses misty has been confused with mystic.]
     1. 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.
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     2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty
        sight; to peer into the misty future.
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              The more I muse therein [theology],
              The mistier it seemeth.               --Piers
                                                    Plowman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misty
       adj 1: filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October
              morning" [syn: {brumous}, {foggy}, {hazy}]
       2: wet with mist; "the misty evening"
       [also: {mistiest}, {mistier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "misty":
     addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, airy, amorphic,
     amorphous, anarchic, attenuate, attenuated, baggy, beclouded,
     befuddled, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blinding, blobby,
     blurred, blurry, boyish, cat-and-doggish, chaotic, characterless,
     clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, delicate, diaphanous,
     diluted, dim, disorderly, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly,
     drumming, ethereal, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, fine,
     fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fogged, foggy, formless, frail,
     fuddlebrained, fuddled, fuzzy, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile,
     half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, in a fog, in a muddle,
     inchoate, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate,
     indistinct, indistinguishable, inform, insubstantial,
     kaleidoscopic, lacy, light, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed,
     misted, misty-moisty, mizzly, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, murky,
     muzzy, nebulous, nondescript, obscure, opaque, orderless,
     out of focus, pale, papery, pea-soupy, pelting, pluvial, pluviose,
     pluvious, pouring, puzzleheaded, rainy, rare, rarefied,
     semivisible, shadowy, shapeless, showery, slender, slenderish,
     slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoggy, soupy,
     streaming, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
     thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, transcendent, uncertain,
     unclear, undefined, unintelligible, unordered, unorganized,
     unplain, unrecognizable, vague, wasp-waisted, watered,
     watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy
  
  

















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