Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clouded or dimmed with or as if with mist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Clouded with, or as with, mist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Clouded with, or as with,mist .
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Examples
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This blue and brilliant morning shows all those burning peaks alight, while here, shapeless, mistful, brood the shadowed towers.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Taste and smell give no evidence of their existence, the eyes become covered with a mistful veil and the ear ceases to execute its functions.
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This blue and brilliant morning shows all those burning peaks alight, while here, shapeless, mistful, brood the shadowed towers.
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Taste and smell give no evidence of their existence, the eyes become covered with a mistful veil and the ear ceases to execute its functions.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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i agree with mistful, horrible though this cartoon is, its nice like as bad as the real thing.
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