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misty

Best crossword clue

"Filled with light fog"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɪsti/Part of speech adjectiveSorted imstyStarts with MEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. filled or abounding with fog or mist

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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