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Misty adj. (compar. mistier; superl. mistiest)

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.

Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight; to peer into the misty future. "The more I muse therein (theology), The mistier it seemeth."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Misty" Quotes from Famous Books

... his gaze fell on this last ornament, grew unaccountably misty, and he turned aside, staring out of the low window. Mrs. Duveen, who throughout the time that she had been placing chairs for her visitors (first dusting the seats with her apron) had watched the captain constantly, at the same ...

— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer

... Alps and ventured back to their misty island, where they spent an unsatisfactory summer, moving from place to place in a fruitless search for better weather. Several hemorrhages forced them to the conclusion that they must be once more on the wing, and as both felt an unconquerable repugnance ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... of those days in Dresden was vague and misty. He crept along the bustling streets of that sombre, gray city, that seemed to look more natural by cloud-light than in the full sunshine, feeling continually within him a struggle between the two incompatible natures now so strangely blended. Each day he kept up the contest ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

... But the next time he looked the plain was as wild and lone as before, save under the rising blast the snow was beginning to ramp and race across the level sod till it looked at times like a sea running white with foam and misty with spray. ...

— A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen • Hamlin Garland

... barefooted in the cold passage, her ear to the crack; but the breathing went on too steadily and naturally to be other than that of a man in a sound sleep. She crept back to her room reassured, and stood in the window watching the moon set through the trees of the park. The sky was misty and starless, and after the moon went down the night was pitch black. She knew the time had come, and stole along the passage, past her husband's door—where she stopped again to listen to his breathing—to the top of the stairs. There she paused a moment, and assured herself that no one was ...

— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton

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