Entry Word: hazy

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension <hazy skies made it dangerous to fly> <the hazy sunshine so common in August>

Synonyms beclouded, befogged, clouded, cloudy, foggy, misty, murky, smoggy, soupy

Related Words overcast, rainy, stormy, thick; dirty, miry, mucky, muddy, slimy, slushy, turbid; smoky (also smokey), sooty; filmy, milky, opaque

Near Antonyms bright, clean; fair, rainless, sunny, sunshiny; translucent, transparent

Antonyms clear, cloudless, limpid, pellucid, unclouded

2 covered over by clouds <when taking landscape photographs, compensate for dull, hazy skies by emphasizing colorful features on the ground> — see overcast
3 not seen or understood clearly <the meaning of “you should” here is hazy —does it mean “you are strongly urged” or “you are commanded”?> — see faint 1