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Word entry · 5 letters

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
1M2I3S4T5Y

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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