English Explanatory Dictionary

mist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
  2. A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  3. Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
verb
  1. To form mist.
  2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
  3. To rain in very fine droplets.
  4. To cover with a mist.
  5. To be covered by tears.
  6. To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
verb
  1. past of miss
verb
  1. Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)
name
  1. Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey.

Pronunciation

/mɪst/ en-us-mist.ogg

Word forms

mist mists misting misted

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

brume

Derived words

Australian Mist black mist devil-in-a-mist ecto-mist enmist fairy mist groundmist ground mist ground-mist love in a mist love-in-a-mist magic mist misle mist belt mist-belt mistbow mist cap mist coat misteous mistfall mistflower mistfly mist frog mistfrog mistful mistless mistlike mist net mist-pond mists of time mist up misty overmist red mist bemist demist demister mister mist over unmist
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