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hazy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of hazy

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 of hazy

beclouded, befogged, brumous, clouded, cloudy, foggy, gauzy, misty, murky, smoggy, soupy
Words Related to hazy

overcast, rainy, stormy, thick

dirty, miry, mucky, muddy, slimy, slushy, turbid

miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic

smoky (also smokey), smudgy, sooty

filmy, milky, opaque
Near Antonyms of hazy

bright, clean

clement, fair, sunny, sunshiny

translucent, transparent
Antonyms of hazy

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
Synonyms of hazy

beclouded, clouded, cloudy, dull, hazed, heavy, lowering (also louring), overcast, overclouded
Words Related to hazy

bedimmed, befogged, blackened, darkened, darksome, dim, dimmed, dulled, dusky, misty, murky, obscure, obscured, overshadowed

sunless

black, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen
Near Antonyms of hazy

sunlit, sunny, sunshiny

brightened, brilliant, dazzling, illuminated, illumined, lit (or lighted), lightened, radiant, shiny
Antonyms of hazy

clear, cloudless

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"?
Synonyms of hazy

blear, bleary, blurry, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, gauzy, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, misty, murky, nebulous, obscure, opaque, pale, shadowy, unclear, undefined, undetermined, vague
Words Related to hazy

dark, dusky, gloomy

impalpable, inappreciable, intangible, invisible

hieroglyphic (also hieroglyphical), incomprehensible, indecipherable, indiscernible, inexplicable, mysterious, obfuscatory, puzzling
Near Antonyms of hazy

bright, distinct, evident, obvious, plain

certain, firm, strong, sure
Antonyms of hazy

clear, definite, pellucid

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