hazilyadv.
/ˈheɪzᵻli/, U.S. /ˈheɪzᵻli/ In a hazy manner.
1. So as to indicate or suggest the presence of haze; as if covered or surrounded by a haze; mistily, foggily; indistinctly.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > indistinctly
thicklyc1400
indistinctly1580
obscurelyc1586
veiledly1646
dimly1667
blindly1686
shadowyc1804
mistily1813
hazily1818
filmily1853
shadowly1866
blurrily1868
vaguely1871
smudgedly1889
faintly1892
1818 Brit. Critic Nov. 538 The morning that ushered in the day that decided the destiny of France broke hazily.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 31 The river..glittered hazily in the last rays of sunset.
1889 ‘Rita’ Sheba III. iii. 36 The light and the shadows seemed to swim hazily before her sight.
1948 R. Chaplin Wobbly xiii. 153 On Christmas Eve the lights of the Church of Notre Dame shone hazily through falling snow.
1976 A. MacLeod in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1978) 168 Dublin and the Irish coast..seeming almost hazily visible now in imagination's mist.
2003 New Yorker (Nexis) 18 Aug. 31 On one of these dog-day nights, with the sun setting hazily down the cross streets, it's reasonable to crave a little breeze.
2. figurative. Vaguely; with a degree of uncertainty; without mental clarity; in a state of mental confusion or befuddlement, spec. from taking alcoholic drink or drugs.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [adverb] > in a confused manner
perturbedly1654
disconcertedly1823
hazily1830
muddlingly1830
flurriedly1834
bewilderedly1846
bemusedly1896
muzzily1903
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adverb] > obscurely
obscurelya1527
diffuselyc1530
infinitely1530
diffusedly1567
cloudily1651
shadowishlya1680
vaguely1781
nebulouslya1796
undefinably1796
undefinedly1827
hazily1830
1830 N.-Y. Spectator 7 Sept. The events connected with this revolution, have passed before us with such unexampled rapidity, that they float hazily in the mind like a dream.
1860 Mother's Trials xlvii. 251 He looked round him hazily, with his darkening eyes, and this time his gaze lighted on his son Charles.
1894 Advance (Chicago) 31 May One is so likely to think hazily of African territory.
1936 C. Rourke Audubon xiv. 292 He referred somewhat hazily to a few flower and bird paintings which he said were his.
1940 J. Fergusson in F. P. Walton Ld. Hermand's Consistorial Decisions 37 Pitt and Dundas..entered the House of Commons together one evening in so ‘blind’ a state that when Pitt hazily remarked, ‘I cannot see the Speaker, Hal, can you?’ Dundas replied, [etc.].
1973 E. C. Luwaso City Kid iii. 34 John rose and made his way hazily to the door.
2009 Sewanee Rev. 117 487 This was realism, I thought hazily, and it was everything beautiful, brave, and fine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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