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mist¹
- /mɪst/
Sounds like missed (some dialects) · Rhymes with -ɪst
Where it comes from
The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).
The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.
noun mists
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Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
Similar: brume
- A layer of fine droplets or particles. There was an oily mist on the lens.
- Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. His passion cast a mist before his sense.
verb mists · misting · misted
- To form mist. It's misting this morning.
- To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- To rain in very fine droplets. ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.
- To cover with a mist. The lens was misted.
- To be covered by tears. My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
- To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
mist²
- /mɪst/
Sounds like missed (some dialects) · Rhymes with -ɪst
verb
- past of miss you shall be mist at Court
MiST³
verb MiSTs · MiSTing · MiSTed
- Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)
MIST⁴
proper noun
- Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: fog, mist over, haze over, befog, cloud, becloud, obscure, vapor, rain, defrost, steam, haze, condensate, smog, vapour, humidifier
Translations
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noun water or other liquid finely suspended in air
| Español | neblina, bruma |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 안개 an'gae |
| 日本語 | 霞み kasumi, 霧 kiri, 靄 moya |
| 中文 | 薄霧 /薄雾 bówù |
| हिन्दी | धुंध dhundh, कोहरा kohrā |
| Português | névoa, neblina, bruma, brêtema |
| Français | brouillard, brume |
| Deutsch | Dunst |
| Italiano | foschia, bruma |
| Ελληνικά | αντάρα antára |
| Română | ceață, negură |
| Русский | тума́н tumán, ды́мка dýmka, мгла mgla |
| العربية | سَدِيم sadīm |
| עברית | אד ed, ערפל 'arafél |
verb to form mist
| 日本語 | 霞む kasumu |
|---|---|
| Português | enevoar |
| Français | faire de la brume, brumer |
verb to spray fine droplets on
| Русский | орошать orošatʹ |
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title = {mist},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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