3 definitions found 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight; to peer into the misty future. [1913 Webster] The more I muse therein [theology], The mistier it seemeth. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 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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