hazy
/ˈheɪzi
/adjective (hazier, haziest)
1Covered by a haze: it was a beautiful day but quite hazy...
- The light from the moon was weak, peeking wearily through hazy clouds.
- A hazy or cloudy wine can indicate the growth of micro-organisms or bacteria.
- The film has a misty, hazy appearance in some of its more striking moments.
Synonyms
misty, foggy, cloudy, clouded, smoggy, murky, overcast
1.1Vague or ill-defined: hazy memories the picture we have of him is extremely hazy...
- I have a hazy, indistinct memory of this morning.
- Some of these impressions will come to you as vague fragments; a hazy glimpse without any notion of time or place.
- The idea of rebirth was hazy and vague in my mind at this time.
Synonyms
vague, indistinct, unclear, faint, dim, indefinite, ill-defined, nebulous, shadowy, blurred, fuzzy, muzzy, woolly, confused, muddled
1.2Confused; uncertain: school-leavers were often hazy about employment...
- At best, such figures are hazy assessments.
- I could not picture my return, and the whole future looked hazy and uncertain.
- As is all too common, precise details are hazy and confused.
Derivatives
hazily
/ adverb ...- In one photograph, Darwell surveys a cityscape of abandoned apartment buildings where the Chernobyl Power Plant looms hazily in the distance.
- Rawkus Records was founded on a hazily idealistic notion about promoting progressive music.
- After some indeterminate amount of time I began to be hazily aware that something was on my shirt.
haziness
/ noun ...- With a very round voice, rather than a steely, singular edge that more piercing sopranos have, she creates a haziness that is very comforting and no small part of her wide appeal far beyond the realm of opera and recital aficionados.
- Problems include increased sensitivity to light at night and haziness of vision.
- Mike said that the room filled with a very slight but discernible haziness, which then seem to gather at one of the corners of the ceiling.
Origin
Early 17th century (in nautical use in the sense 'foggy'): of unknown origin.