'Mist' definitions:
Definition of 'mist'
(from WordNet)
noun
A thin fog with condensation near the ground
verb
Become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over" [syn: mist, mist over]
verb
Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist]
verb
Spray finely or cover with mist
Definition of 'Mist'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Mist'
From: GCIDE
- Mist \Mist\, v. i. To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'mist'
From: GCIDE
- mist \mist\ (m[i^]st), n. [AS. mist; akin to D. & Sw. mist, Icel. mistr, G. mist dung, Goth. ma['i]hstus, AS. m[imac]gan to make water, Icel. m[imac]ga, Lith. migla mist, Russ. mgla, L. mingere, meiere, to make water, Gr. 'omichei^n to make water, 'omi`chlh mist, Skr. mih to make water, n., a mist m[=e]gha cloud. [root]102. Cf. Misle, Mizzle, Mixen.]
- 1. Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. [1913 Webster]
- His passion cast a mist before his sense. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Mist flower (Bot.), a composite plant ({Eupatorium coelestinum}), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- air,
- airy nothing,
- amorphousness,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befog,
- befuddle,
- befuddlement,
- bemist,
- bewilder,
- bewilderment,
- blood rain,
- blur,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bubble,
- bug,
- chaos,
- clabber up,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloud up,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- dark,
- darken,
- darken over,
- darkness,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- defocus,
- dim,
- discombobulate,
- discombobulation,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disorientation,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- drisk,
- drizzle,
- drizzling mist,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- encloud,
- enmist,
- entangle,
- ether,
- evening mist,
- fall,
- film,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- frenzy,
- frost smoke,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fuss,
- fuzziness,
- gauze,
- gout of rain,
- haze,
- illusion,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- jumble,
- London fog,
- London special,
- lose resolution,
- maze,
- mess,
- mistiness,
- misty rain,
- mix up,
- mizzle,
- moider,
- moisture,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystification,
- nubilate,
- obfuscation,
- obnubilate,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscure,
- obscurity,
- opacity,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overshadow,
- oversmoke,
- pale,
- patter,
- pea soup,
- pea-soup fog,
- peasouper,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturb,
- perturbation,
- phantom,
- pitter-patter,
- pother,
- precipitation,
- pucker,
- put out,
- rain,
- raindrop,
- rainfall,
- rainwater,
- raise hell,
- rattle,
- ruffle,
- Scotch mist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shapelessness,
- sheet of rain,
- shower,
- shuffle,
- smog,
- smoke,
- soften,
- spirit,
- splatter,
- sprinkle,
- steam up,
- stew,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- thin air,
- throw into confusion,
- tizzy,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- unfrozen hydrometeor,
- unplainness,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vagueness,
- vapor,
- wet