hazy
hazy (hā′zē)
adjective -·zier, -·zi·est
- filled with haze; somewhat foggy, misty, or smoky
- somewhat vague, obscure, confused, or indefinite hazy thinking
Etymology: prob. < or akin to OE hasu, haswig, gray, dusky (akin to MHG heswe, pale): cf. hare
hazy
modif.
Obscured to the sight
cloudy, foggy, smoggy, murky, misty, unclear, overcast, steaming, screened, fuliginous, fumy, rimy, filmy, gauzy, vaporous, smoky, dim, dull, indistinct, nebulous, spraylike, shadowy, dusky, obscure, wavering, thick, opaque, bleared, obfuscated, frosty, lowering, veiled, blurred, glimmering, semitransparent, blurry, crepuscular, faint, bleary; see also dark 1.Antonyms
bright, clear*, cloudless. Obscured to the understanding
unclear, vague, unsound, unintelligible; see obscure 1.
Preposition: on
- subject: Irving was also somewhat hazy on the subject of whether or not he knew Stennett.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- get: From here we went on to some bar in Romford but the night was starting to get a bit hazy for me.
Modifies a noun
- sunshine: The sky was clearing toward 0900 GMT with weak hazy sunshine.
- recollection: I have a hazy recollection that there is a short terrace of houses here.
- horizon: To either side the contorted chasm disappeared into the hazy horizon, a twisting slash in the flat, forested plateau.
- visibility: The day was mainly sunny with good but hazy visibility and little or no wind.
- memory: The hazy memory cleared - he was Immortal too.
- sun: A mostly cloudy day with some periods of hazy sun.
Modifying Another Word
- somewhat: The early history of the Hythe police is somewhat hazy.
- slightly: I kept looking up at the slightly hazy moon.
- rather: Personal Rating: Has been a long time since I ran here so memory is rather hazy.
- little: There things got a little hazy, or should I say foggy.
- very: I remember meeting my friend then things get very hazy.
- quite: The company has made some visible steps in that direction, but the strategy is still quite hazy, perhaps deliberately.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Fog can be controlled with the Fog slider, which influences the degree to which the view becomes hazy with distance.
- remain: I had a good time - I know I had a good time, but exactly what I did remains hazy.
- get: Getting hazy; can't divide three from two.
- look: Later the study center's future started to look alarmingly hazy.
- go: I hit the floor with a thud and the room went hazy for a minute or two.
- appear: Atmospheric perspective particles and vapor in the atmosphere cause scattering of light that makes very distant surface appear hazy.
