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MISTY
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Irregular inflected forms: mistier , mistiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled or abounding with fog or mist
Example:
a brumous October morning
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)
Derivation:
mist (a thin fog with condensation near the ground)
mistiness (cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wet with mist
Example:
the misty evening
Classified under:
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
mist (a thin fog with condensation near the ground)
mistiness (cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor)
Context examples:
And yet, I was perverse enough to feel a chill and disappointment in receiving no welcome, and rattling, alone and silent, through the misty streets.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My glazed eye wandered over the dim and misty landscape.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After tea, when the door was shut and all was made snug (the nights being cold and misty now), it seemed to me the most delicious retreat that the imagination of man could conceive.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty: as it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead: we ceased to pass through towns; the country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon: as twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood, and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Misty ideas of being a young man at my own disposal, of the importance attaching to a young man at his own disposal, of the wonderful things to be seen and done by that magnificent animal, and the wonderful effects he could not fail to make upon society, lured me away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The roads were heavy, the night misty; my conductor let his horse walk all the way, and the hour and a half extended, I verily believe, to two hours; at last he turned in his seat and said—You're noan so far fro' Thornfield now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
