📖 Definitions of "Mists"
noun
- 1
Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
"It was difficult to see through the morning mist."
- 2
A layer of fine droplets or particles.
"There was an oily mist on the lens."
- 3
Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
verb
- 1
To form mist.
"It's misting this morning."
- 2
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
"I mist my tropical plants every morning."
- 3
To cover with a mist.
"The lens was misted."
- 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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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 oververb | To become covered in haze. |
| befogverb | To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). |
| cloudnoun | A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. |
| becloudverb | (transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled. |
| obscureverb | Difficult to understand; abstruse. |
| drizzlesnoun | Light rain. |
| dropletsnoun | A 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. |
| murknoun | Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. |
| mistynoun | A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s. |
| hazenoun | Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.) |
| miasmanoun | A 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. |
| sunbeamsnoun | A 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). |
| shadowsnoun | a 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. |
| dusksnoun | The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period. |
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