misty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   wet with mist

   the misty evening

2. 2
   adj

   Covered in mist; foggy.

   It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!

3. 3
   adj

   Dim; vague; obscure.

   a misty memory of his childhood

4. 4
   adj

   With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

   Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.

5. 5
   adj

   filled or abounding with fog or mist

6. 6
   name

   A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.

7. 7
   name

   A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.

Etymology

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”).