Misty Meaning
/ˈmɪsti/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCovered in mist; foggy.
adjDim; vague; obscure.
Sentence Examples
The girl disappeared in the misty forest.
I think that Misty has different feelings towards insects.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The morning was so ____ that we could not see the far mountains.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The mountaintop was covered in a ____ veil of clouds, hiding the spectacular view of the surrounding green valley below.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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."
— 2005 February 7, Ben Ratliff, “New CD's”, in The New York Times:
"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."
— 2010 July 23, Joseph Berger, “The Latino Lag”, in The New York Times:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The morning was so ____ that we could not see the far mountains.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The mountaintop was covered in a ____ veil of clouds, hiding the spectacular view of the surrounding green valley below.