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misty

/ˈmɪsti/

misty adjective: covered in mist; foggy.

Adjective

misty (comparative mistier, superlative mistiest)

  1. Covered in mist; foggy.
    • It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!
  2. (figuratively) Dim; vague; obscure.
    • a misty memory of his childhood
    • My remembrances of the place and its people are misty — all about it seem more like something I once saw in a dream, but whose characters time has effaced.1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 10
  3. (figuratively) With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.
    • Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.

Proper noun capitalized: Misty

Misty (plural Mistys)

  1. A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.

misty meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

misty in Tamil

தெளிவற்ற, மூடுபனியான

misty in Urdu

دھندلا, کہرآلود

misty in Bengali

কুয়াশাচ্ছন্ন, ঝাপসা, অস্পষ্ট

misty in Telugu

మిస్టీ
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misty in Malayalam
മഞ്ഞുമൂടിയ, മൂടൽമഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട് ആവരണം ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട, അവ്യക്തമായ, മൂടൽമഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ടു മറയ്ക്കപ്പെട്ട
misty in Kannada
ಮಿಸ್ಟಿ
misty in Nepali
कुइरे kuire

Examples of misty in a sentence

  • If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on.
  • It could turn a little misty in places towards dawn.
  • A rich, dark odor of sweet earth, coming at them through a misty rain.

All 23 example sentences with misty

Forms of misty

Adjective
comparativemistier
superlativemistiest
Proper noun
pluralMistys

Origin of misty

From Middle English misty, mysty, misti, from Old English mistiġ (“misty, dark”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistig (“misty”), equivalent to mist + -y. Cognate with Scots misty, mistie (“misty”), West Frisian mistich (“misty, foggy”), Dutch mistig (“misty, foggy”), German Low German mistig (“foggy”).

From the adjective misty, but sometimes also (like Missy) used as a nickname for Melissa.

Words formed from misty

Phrases with misty

Words that rhyme with misty

Questions about misty

What does misty mean?
Misty means covered in mist; foggy.
What is misty in Tamil?
Misty in Tamil is தெளிவற்ற, மூடுபனியான. See Misty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is misty?
Misty can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce misty?
Misty is pronounced /ˈmɪsti/.

Words near misty in the dictionary

  1. mistweets
  2. mistwist
  3. mistwisted
  4. mistwisting
  5. mistwists
  6. misty
  7. misty flip
  8. misty flips
  9. misty rose
  10. misty roses
  11. misty-eyed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misty (page history and authors); Misty (page history and authors); misty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misty (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); misty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misty (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कुइरे (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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