What does misty mean?
Misty means Covered in mist; foggy..
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/ˈmɪsti/ · adjective
Covered in mist; foggy..
It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!
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.
Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.
But she soon found out how little equipped she was for college study. Not only was Ms. Segovia’s English rocky, but she had only the mistiest notions of what college was all about.
Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.
Use misty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misty means Covered in mist; foggy..
Common synonyms include wet, brumous, foggy, cloudy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!
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