Misty
adjective
Covered by a fine spray or light fog.
The sky is misty this morning.
Often appears as...
- misty morning
- misty weather
adjective
Not clear because of haze or tears.
Her eyes were misty from crying.
Often appears as...
- misty eyes
- misty vision
adjective
Obscure or vague.
He has a misty understanding of the subject.
Often appears as...
- misty memory
- misty concept
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Disapproving
adjective
Covered by a fine spray or light fog.
The sky is misty this morning.
Often appears as...
- misty morning
- misty weather
adjective
Not clear because of haze or tears.
Her eyes were misty from crying.
Often appears as...
- misty eyes
- misty vision
adjective
Obscure or vague.
He has a misty understanding of the subject.
Often appears as...
- misty memory
- misty concept
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Conditions
Use 'misty' to describe the atmosphere where finer, lighter fog spreads, not heavy fog.
Driving became difficult due to the misty conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Poetic Scenes
'Misty' often appears in literature or poetry to paint a serene or mysterious scene.
The novel described a secluded misty lake surrounded by pines.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Weather
'Misty' can describe anything lightly covered by or resembling mist, like a window or lens.
The misty windshield made it hard to see the road.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Conditions
Use 'misty' to describe the atmosphere where finer, lighter fog spreads, not heavy fog.
Driving became difficult due to the misty conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Poetic Scenes
'Misty' often appears in literature or poetry to paint a serene or mysterious scene.
The novel described a secluded misty lake surrounded by pines.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Weather
'Misty' can describe anything lightly covered by or resembling mist, like a window or lens.
The misty windshield made it hard to see the road.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Conditions
Use 'misty' to describe the atmosphere where finer, lighter fog spreads, not heavy fog.
Driving became difficult due to the misty conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Poetic Scenes
'Misty' often appears in literature or poetry to paint a serene or mysterious scene.
The novel described a secluded misty lake surrounded by pines.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Weather
'Misty' can describe anything lightly covered by or resembling mist, like a window or lens.
The misty windshield made it hard to see the road.
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Carolyn Porco: This is...
down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute. Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like. It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth. It's cold, it's eerie, it's misty, it might be raining, and you might be standing
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Discovering underwater...
as our light slowly light up the brine pool you could see a ring of mussels living around the edge of this pond this Parliament has got a misty layer on the top almost like a which is called him it's an amazingly diverse complex ecosystem and you're watching it
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How we found the giant...
he turned on his flashlight because he wanted to see better, and the giant didn't run away, so he risked turning on the white lights on the submersible, bringing a creature of legend from the misty history into high-resolution video.
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How tall can a tree...
Growing in the misty Sierra Nevada mountains, their massive trunks support the tallest known trees in the world. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits. No sequoia on record has been able to grow taller than 130 meters –
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Interview: Mattias Klum...
photography as a means to communicate because I had seen so many beautiful things that when I came back to my parents and my my friends and said look you should have been there four o'clock this morning was beautiful was misty and
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Lesley Hazleton: The...
Five years ago, for instance, I found myself waking each morning in misty Seattle to what I knew was an impossible What actually happened one desert night, half the world and almost half of history away? What happened, that is,
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Extremely Rare White...
thousands of years ago first September it is called at a time so but Liberty misty had in the morning so we saw actually it was one line s three cubs and then and when the first guy pulled him in he said I've got a
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The Secret Life of...
it's somewhere deep in a rainforest there's a lush tapestry of thin brown tree trunks and rich green leaves rising out of a swamp sunlight filters through a white misty haze and i see two monkeys perched on a
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Blue Lagoon PIPE National...
essentially a misty lake of hot sea water it's in a very unusual very dramatic setting adjacent to a power plant and surrounded by volcanoes and old lava fields this strange and steamy world of black
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The secret messages of...
In the 8th century CE, Vikings surged across the misty seas. They came from Scandinavia in Northern Europe but would travel far and wide.
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Carolyn Porco: This is...
down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute. Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like. It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth. It's cold, it's eerie, it's misty, it might be raining, and you might be standing
Video examples
Discovering underwater...
as our light slowly light up the brine pool you could see a ring of mussels living around the edge of this pond this Parliament has got a misty layer on the top almost like a which is called him it's an amazingly diverse complex ecosystem and you're watching it
Video examples
How we found the giant...
he turned on his flashlight because he wanted to see better, and the giant didn't run away, so he risked turning on the white lights on the submersible, bringing a creature of legend from the misty history into high-resolution video.
Video examples
How tall can a tree...
Growing in the misty Sierra Nevada mountains, their massive trunks support the tallest known trees in the world. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits. No sequoia on record has been able to grow taller than 130 meters –
Video examples
Interview: Mattias Klum...
photography as a means to communicate because I had seen so many beautiful things that when I came back to my parents and my my friends and said look you should have been there four o'clock this morning was beautiful was misty and
Video examples
Lesley Hazleton: The...
Five years ago, for instance, I found myself waking each morning in misty Seattle to what I knew was an impossible What actually happened one desert night, half the world and almost half of history away? What happened, that is,
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Extremely Rare White...
thousands of years ago first September it is called at a time so but Liberty misty had in the morning so we saw actually it was one line s three cubs and then and when the first guy pulled him in he said I've got a
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
it's somewhere deep in a rainforest there's a lush tapestry of thin brown tree trunks and rich green leaves rising out of a swamp sunlight filters through a white misty haze and i see two monkeys perched on a
Video examples
Blue Lagoon PIPE National...
essentially a misty lake of hot sea water it's in a very unusual very dramatic setting adjacent to a power plant and surrounded by volcanoes and old lava fields this strange and steamy world of black
Video examples
The secret messages of...
In the 8th century CE, Vikings surged across the misty seas. They came from Scandinavia in Northern Europe but would travel far and wide.
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Quote examples
Heather Watts
American Dancer
Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.
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Tim Pratt
American Writer
As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.
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Lalla Ward
English Actor
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.
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Pete Hamill
American Journalist
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
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Stephen Gardiner
British Architect
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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Peter Falk
American Actor
I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
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Thomas Hood
English Poet
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
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Heather Watts
American Dancer
Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.
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Tim Pratt
American Writer
As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.
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Lalla Ward
English Actor
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.
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Pete Hamill
American Journalist
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
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Stephen Gardiner
British Architect
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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Peter Falk
American Actor
I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
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Thomas Hood
English Poet
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
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