Hazy

Definition: Hazy

Hazy

Adjective

1. Filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning".

2. Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hazy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)

Note: Hazy \Ha"zy\, adjective. [From Haze, noun.]. (references)

Synonyms: Hazy

Crosswords: Hazy

Is a hazy shade of winter (Hazy Shade Of Winter; performing artist: The Bangles)

It's a hazy shade of winter (Hazy Shade Of Winter; performing artist: The Bangles)

Didn't seem so hazy (Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days); performing artist: Judds)

Hazy Shade Of Winter (performing artist: The Bangles)

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Books

• A Hazy Shade of Winter (reference)

• BMC (BMC Software): Reports $0.08; Streamlining Operations; Outlook Still Hazy [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Hazy ...? Crazy ...? And/or lazy ...? : The maligning of children with learning disabilities (reference)

• Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: On Zen Practice III (The Zen Writings Series) (reference)

• Hazy Mountain (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hazy Days Of Summer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Hazy Blue Project (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The delicate, hazy, tan macular rim of this lesion, although not clinically dramatic, represents persistent melanocytic proliferation beyond the lateral limits of the common mole at its center. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The Hubble telescope has peered deep into Uranus's atmosphere to see clear and hazy layers ... Credit: NASA.

Mendocino Coast from seaward on a hazy morning. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

San Francisco skyline from the bay on a hazy day. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are the barometer records of various storms encountered by the HIRONDELLE in 1887. Figure 4 is a record of barometric pressure during periods of hazy mist and clearing. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Hazy dawn during fire. Credit: Steve Lent.

What every wife knows. From her husband's discourses a wife may gain a rather hazy idea ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It was a very hazy day.

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Health

Without this pumping action, the stroma would swell with water, become hazy, and ultimately opaque. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "hazy": be hazy about ♦ be hazy about smth. ♦ go hazy ♦ hazy sunlight. Additional references.

Albanian

me tym, i mjegulluar (bedimmed, blear, bleary, foggy, misty, woozy), i mjegullt (foggy, misty, nebulous, vague). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبهم (abstruse, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, dim, enigmatic, equivocal, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inscrutable, misty, mysterious, mystic, obscure, recondite, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, vague), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏غائم (blear, bleary, clouded over, cloudy, dull, filmy, fuzzy, nebulous, woolly), ‏ضبابي (foggy, fuzziness, misty, nebulous, sloppy, vaporous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), мъглив (brumous, damp, dull, foggy, misty, nebulous, thick, vaporous, vapory, vapoury), замъглен (befogged, blear, bleary, filmy, foggy, misted, misty, nebulous, smoky, vapory, vapoury). (various references)

Chinese 

矓 (unclear), 僾 (indistinct), 朦胧 (obscurity, shadowy). (various references)

Czech

zamlžený, zahalený v mlze, vágnost (dimness), vágní (dim, impressionistic, lax, sloppy, vague), nejasnost (ambiguity, dimness, faintness, obscurity, stolidity), nejasný (abstruse, ambiguous, dim, dimmish, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, obscure, stolid, tenuous, unclear, vague, woolly), mlhavost (dimness, fogginess), mlhavý (dim, foggy, indefinite, misty, nebulous, vague, vapoury). (various references)

Danish

taaget (foggy, misty). (various references)

Dutch

heiïg (foggy, misty), mistig (fuzzy, misty). (various references)

Farsi 

مه دار (Misty), نامعلوم (Conditional, Equivocal, Incalculable, Inconspicuous, Indescribable, Indistinct, Invisible, Pendant, Uncertain, Uncharted, Unknown, Unlimited), گیج (Astound, Astray, Dizzy, Giddy, Harebrained, Stupid, Wacky). (various references)

Finnish

hämärä (dark, dim, dusk, dusky, obscure, the grey dawn, twilight), sumea (fogged-up, misty), epäselvä (confused, illegible, indistinct, not clear, obscure), epämääräinen (indefinite, indeterminate, nondescript, uncertain, undetermined, vague, woolly), autereinen. (various references)

French

brumeux (hazily). (various references)

German

dunstig (damp, dankly, hazily, misty, smoky, steamily, steamy, stuffy, vaporous, vaporously), diesig (misty), verschwommen (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, blurry, dim, dreamy, fuzzy, indistinct, misty, muzzy, shadowy, vague, woolly). (various references)

Greek 

ασαφήσ (ambiguous, blear, fuzzy, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, misty, vague), αμυδρόσ (crepuscular, dim, twilight), ομιχλώδησ (foggy, misty, nebulous), ομιχλώδης (foggy, misty), θολόσ (blear, bleary, blurred, clouded, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, thick, turbid, woozy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעורפל (dim, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, misty, nebulous, shadowy), מטושטש (muzzy, woolly), אביך (misty). (various references)

Hungarian

párás (damp, smoky, steamy, vaporous, vapourish), ködös (brumous, dirty, faint, foggy, misty, muddy, nebulous, steamy, turbid, woolly), homályos (abstruse, apocalyptic, bleary, blurred, cloudy, darksome, dim, dusk, dusky, equivocal, foggy, frosted, fuzzy, gloomy, indistinct, indistinctive, lustreless, misty, murky, nebulous, oblique, obscure, recondite, shadowy, shady, shape, stygian, transcendental, twilit, unclear, vague). (various references)

Indonesian

guram (chicken flea, dim, dull, insignificant), berkabut (foggy, misty). (various references)

Italian

nebbioso (foggy, hazily, misty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

靄の掛かった , 有耶無耶 (indefinite), 朦朧たる (dim, obscure, vague), 朦朧 (ambiguous, dim, faint, indistinct, vague), 漠然たる (obscure, vague), 幽か (dim, faint, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), 微か (dim, faint, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うやむや (indefinite), ばくぜんたる (obscure, vague), かすか (dim, faint, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), もうろうたる (dim, obscure, vague), もうろう (ambiguous, dim, faint, indistinct, vague), もやのかかった, もやもや (feel fuzzy, feel sad, misty). (various references)

Korean 

흐릿한. (various references)

Manx

neuchruinn (inaccurate, inexact, vague), kayeeagh (foggy, misty, nebulous). (various references)

Norwegian

disig. (various references)

Pig Latin

azyhay.(various references)

Portuguese

vago (empty, faraway, fuzzy, general, half-hearted, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, jumbled up, lax, loose, nebulous, neutral, remote, spare, transcendental, vacant, vague), obscuro (abstruse, blur, dim, dusk, fameless, foggy, humble, inexplicit, inglorious, misty, mysterious, nameless, obscure, oracular, transcendental, unclear, unnoted), nublado (blear, misty), nebuloso (cloudy, desolate, dismal, dreary, foggy, gaunt, gloomy, misty, mournful, nebulous, vaporous), indistinto (dim, fuzzy, inarticulate, incompact, indistinct, lax, misty, mum, nebulous, thick, tight-lipped), brumoso (brumous, foggy, misty). (various references)

Romanian

vaporos (aery, airy, ethereal, fluffy, gaseous, steamy, vaporous, vapoury, woolly), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), puţin beat, neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), indistinct (blurred, faint, indistinct), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), ceţos (brumous, dim, dull, filmy, foggy, misty, nebulous, vague, vaporous), afumat (boozy, censer, fuddled, half-seasoned, jolly, moony, pickled, smoke dried, smoky, squiffed), aerian (aerial, aeriform, aery, airy, breezy, ethereal, featherlike, gaseous, gauzy, skyey, thin, unsubstantial), aburos (foggy, Reeky, steam-engendering, steamy, vaporous, vapoury). (various references)

Russian 

смутный (dim, foggy, indistinct, nebulous, shadowy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nejasan (abstruse, bleary, blurred, dim, fuzzy, indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous, obscure, recondite, unclear, undetermined, vague), maglovit (brumous, foggy, misty, muzzy, nebulous, vague). (various references)

Spanish

brumoso (foggy, fuzzy, misty). (various references)

Swedish

disig (fuzzy, misty, vaporous). (various references)

Thai

พร่ามัว (bleary), ซึ่งมีหมอก. (various references)

Turkish

sisli (foggy, gauzy, misty, thick), puslu (filmy, gauzy, misty), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), kafası dumanlı (fuddled, in the wind, shot, sloshed, tipsy, under the weather), dumanlı (foggy, nebulous, Reeky, smoky, thick), bulanık (blurred, blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague), çakırkeyif (fuddled, halfseas-over, happy, jolly, oiled, on, screwed, shot, somewhat drunk, squiffy, tiddly, tipsy). (various references)

Turkmen 

gamaюyk (cloudy, dull). (various references)

Ukrainian

туманний (brumous, damp, delphic, filmy, foggy, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, soupy, turbid, vaporous, vapourish, vapoury), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, faint, fuzzy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, faint, featureless, foggy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngà ngà say (glorious, tipsy), mơ hồ chếnh choáng say, mù sương (brumous, mistful, misty), mù mịt lờ mờ. (various references)

Welsh

niwlog (foggy, misty). (various references)

Misspellings

"Hazy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hady, hagy, haiz, hajy, haly, hamy, hany, Hanzir, hasey, haxy, haya, hayg, hayi, hayn, hayz, haz, Hazey, hazz, Hazza, heasy, heezy, hezy, hicy, Hisy, hizy, Holzzz, hozy, huzzy, hwaz, hz, khazi, pazy, phaz, wazy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hay, yah.

-2 letters: ah, ay, ha, ya.

+2 letters: hazily.

+3 letters: hazelly, lazyish, zanyish.

+4 letters: schmalzy, shmaltzy, yahrzeit.

+5 letters: hydrazide, hydrazine, hydrozoan, schmaltzy, yahrzeits.