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HAZY
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Irregular inflected forms: hazier , haziest
I. (adjective)
Comparative and superlative
Comparative: hazier
Superlative: haziest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled or abounding with fog or mist
Example:
a brumous October morning
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)
Derivation:
haze (atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility)
haziness (cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Indistinct or hazy in outline
Example:
the trees were just blurry shapes
Synonyms:
bleary; blurred; blurry; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; muzzy
Classified under:
Similar:
indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)
Derivation:
haze (confusion characterized by lack of clarity)
haziness (vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined)
Context examples:
But that was by no means the worst of it, for after a day or two at sea he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colors the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)
Yonder, beyond the violet, hazy horizon, was the stream which led back to civilization.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Came a beautiful fall day, warm and languid, palpitant with the hush of the changing season, a California Indian summer day, with hazy sun and wandering wisps of breeze that did not stir the slumber of the air.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But always, in the foreground, lords of beauty and eternally reading and sharing, lay he and Ruth, and always in the background that was beyond the background of nature, dim and hazy, were work and success and money earned that made them free of the world and all its treasures.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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