/ˈmɪsti/
OriginFrom 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”).
- Covered in mist; foggy.
“It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!”
- figurativelyDim; 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.”
“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.”
- figurativelyWith tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.
“Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.”
- A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
- A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
Formsmistier(comparative) · mistiest(superlative) · Mistys(plural)