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Mists

/mɪsts/

Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

📖 Definitions of "Mists"

noun
  1. 1

    Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

    "It was difficult to see through the morning mist."

  2. 2

    A layer of fine droplets or particles.

    "There was an oily mist on the lens."

  3. 3

    Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

verb
  1. 1

    To form mist.

    "It's misting this morning."

  2. 2

    To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

    "I mist my tropical plants every morning."

  3. 3

    To cover with a mist.

    "The lens was misted."

  4. 4

    (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

    "My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Mists"

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WordDefinition
fognoun(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
mist oververb(intransitive) To become covered with mist.
haze oververbTo become covered in haze.
befogverbTo confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
cloudnounA visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
becloudverb(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
obscureverbDifficult to understand; abstruse.
drizzlesnounLight rain.
dropletsnounA very small drop.
fogsnoun(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
nightnoun(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
murknounDarkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
mistynounA female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
hazenounVery fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
miasmanounA noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.
ethernoun(uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
sunbeamsnounA ray of sunlight; especially, a visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight (as revealed by, for example, its diffraction among dust particles).
shadowsnouna 1959 American independent drama film directed by John Cassavetes about race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City.
nothingnessnoun(philosophy) The state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.
dusksnounThe time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

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