misty-eyed
misty-eyed
Definition
misty-eyed (mis′tē īd′)
adjective
- having tears in the eyes because of strong feelings
- emotional, sentimental, dreamy, etc. a misty-eyed optimist
misty-eyed
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- too: Let's not be too misty-eyed about this cyber revolution.
- all: You can often see guitarists get all misty-eyed as they recall the great tones they got from their old MXR Flanger.
- quite: I have to admit to getting quite misty-eyed when I got my copy of the book God bless Karl and his lens.
Used with adjective complement
- get: This edition he " gets misty-eyed about the golden age of the train... .
- go: Great Christmas DVDs Everyone has a favorite Christmas movie, one that makes you go misty-eyed.
Modifies a noun
Browse dictionary entries near misty-eyed
- misty
- mistrustful
- mistrust
- mistrial
- mistress
- mistreatment
- mistreat
- mistranslation
- mistranslating
- mistranslated
- misunderstand
- misunderstanding
- misunderstood
- misusage
- misuse
- misused
- misuser
- misusing
- misvalue
- misvalued
