mysty

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From myst, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰ-, *h₃migʰ-lo- (“drizzle, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ- (“to flicker, blink, be dark; cloud, mist”).

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mysty (comparative mystiere, superlative mystiest)

  2. Containing or obscured by mist; foggy, misty.
  3. (figurative) Difficult to understand; abstruse, mysterious.
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  • English: misty

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Etymology 2

Likely related to Latin mysticus (“secret, mystical”).

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mysty (comparative mystiere, superlative mystiest)

  2. Subject to interpretation, either symbolically or spiritually.

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