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Mistiest

Misty \Mist"y\ (m[i^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. Mistier (m[i^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Mistiest.] [AS. mistig. See Mist. In some senses misty has been confused with mystic.]

  1. Accompanied with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, a misty morning; misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

  2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight; to peer into the misty future.

    The more I muse therein [theology], The mistier it seemeth.
    --Piers Plowman.

Wiktionary
mistiest

a. (en-superlativemisty)

WordNet
misty

  1. adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning" [syn: brumous, foggy, hazy]

  2. wet with mist; "the misty evening"

  3. [also: mistiest, mistier]

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Usage examples of "mistiest".

Gordon, who had only the mistiest notion of what kind of a warship was mentioned, looked puzzled.

That has always a great effect upon the English, whose feudal notions are rather of the mistiest, and principally derived from Waverley.

East, his own particular East of which I had but the mistiest, short glimpse, was of the most absorbing interest.