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/heɪz/ · noun
Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.).
Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
And is it that the haze of grief Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? The lowness of the present state, That sets the past in this relief?
In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
But these tasks are difficult for the recent history of the form, since our perceptions are clouded by the haze of historical proximity.
Use haze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Haze means Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.).
Common synonyms include daze, fog.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
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