Home > Antonyms > Antonyms for mist

Antonyms for mist

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : mist
Phonetic Transcription : mɪst

Definition of mist

Origin :
  • Old English mist "dimness (of eyesight), mist" (earliest in compounds, such as misthleoðu "misty cliffs," wælmist "mist of death"), from Proto-Germanic *mikhstaz (cf. Middle Low German mist, Dutch mist, Icelandic mistur, Norwegian and Swedish mist), perhaps from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cf. Greek omikhle, Old Church Slavonic migla, Sanskrit mih, megha "cloud, mist;" see micturition).
  • Sometimes distinguished from fog, either as being less opaque or as consisting of drops large enough to have a perceptible downward motion. [OED]
  • Also in Old English in sense of "dimness of the eyes, either by illness or tears," and in figurative sense of "things that obscure mental vision."
  • noun film, vapor
  • verb cloud, steam up
Example sentences :
  • Mist, mist, rolling mist with a square black tower above it.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Through the mist of the December afternoon, it had loomed pleasantly before him.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The light was daylight, but it was inadequate, as though charged with mist.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • A mist came before his eyes, and his heart gave a great cry.
  • Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
  • I fancied that I saw a mist as of tears, a man's slow tears.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • The darkness was so intense that it could be felt like a mist.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • The voyageurs call these mist people the Huntsmen, and look frightened.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • A mist came on, and we could see but a little way before us.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • Through the mist came the sound of the bells of the cattle upon the hill.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • As yet it blew fog and mist, but the hope was that it would soon blow it away.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

Synonyms for mist

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019