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hazy

[hey-zee]

adjective, -zi·er, -zi·est.

characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.

lacking distinctness or clarity; vague; indefinite; obscure; confused: a hazy idea.

Origin:
1615–25; earlier hawsey, metathetic variant of Middle English *haswy, Old English haswig ashen, dusky. See haze¹, -y¹

Related forms

ha·zi·ly, adverb

ha·zi·ness, noun

un·ha·zi·ly, adverb

un·ha·zi·ness, noun

un·ha·zy, adjective

Synonyms
1. foggy, smoggy, overcast.

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Example Sentences

Often it revolves around acquaintances, alcohol, and hazy recollections.

Endless acres of gently undulating farmland drift off towards a hazy horizon.

Due to the hazy day the sunset was perfect for this particular photo and all fell into place.

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Often it revolves around acquaintances, alcohol, and hazy recollections.

Endless acres of gently undulating farmland drift off towards a hazy horizon.

Due to the hazy day the sunset was perfect for this particular photo and all fell into place.

No wonder the general public has only a hazy idea of what an engineer is.

More than two dozen timber rattlesnakes were basking in the hazy sunshine, heaped in an area the size of a card table.

The answer, appropriately enough for these triple-digit days, is hazy and hotly contested.

If he remembers any other country at all, it's at best a few hazy images.

The group's connections to international terrorism are hazy at best.

Besides that, the scene had a lovely hazy quality, which unfortunately rendered the scene quite flat.

The evolutionary relationships between these different groups are hazy however.

Its hazy shade seems to tell a story, but when awakened all you can remember is this photo.

Before that, the accuracy of the dating technique gets hazy.

Hazy childhood memories suggested one that was circuitous but ought to take less time.

Now and then the sun emerged from behind thick clouds, throwing columns of hazy light across the landscape.

The game is so hazy it received almost as many votes as all the other vaporware nominations put together.

The commission's instinct seems to be to take a fairly tough stance on intra-bank lending, but its precise views are hazy.

And then out of the blue, or rather, out of the blue hazy mountains in.

All of this remains in the hazy future of politics and funding, however.

Graduation day was hot and humid, the sky hazy and overcast.

He had been bathed by the hazy blue light of his television night after night, surfing.

Until now, though, that reconciliation has been backed only by hazy data.

Details are still hazy about what went wrong, but the problem appears to lie with an instrument called a star sensor.

They gathered by the sea during the hazy summer, and at first life couldn't have been sweeter.

His land is now a desert scrubland where the slightest breeze lifts a hazy wall of dust.

In this country fine-art printmaking has always occupied a hazy zone, somewhere between painting and drawing and photography.

As the signal moves, it modulates and changes shape, painting everything in a hazy psychedelic wash.

O'Connor choreographed for her in this solo suggested that she was suspended in a hazy realm between dream and.

But others disagreed, saying the mathematical signs of cause-and-effect were hazy or absent.

The hazy and humid days of summer are upon us, and it seems many are coming down with a case of scarlet fever.

His hazy ride back to his place includes generous glimpses of a big ol' glittery cross hanging from her review mirror.

It is a beautiful shot, hazy and golden, but it is all wrong.

My memories of that day are a series of hazy and fragmented images.

The molten metal glowed a brilliant orange in a graphite crucible, as hazy green flames danced above it.

Her feelings for the men who try to get into her life are tepid and hazy.

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World English Dictionary

hazy (ˈheɪzɪ)

—*adj* , -zier, -ziest
1.	characterized by reduced visibility; misty
2.	indistinct; vague

[C17: of unknown origin]

'hazily

—*adv*

'haziness

—n

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Word Origin & History

hazy

1625, hawsey, nautical, of unknown origin. Some connect it with Ger. hase "hare," an animal which plays an important part in Gmc. folklore, with many supernatural and unlucky aspects in medieval times (among the superstitions: a dead hare should not be brought aboard a fishing ship, and the word hare

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should not be spoken at sea). Another suggestion is O.E. hasu, haswe "gray." Haze (n.) is from 1706, probably a back-formation. Sense of "confusion, vagueness" is 1797.The Eng. differentiation of mist, fog, haze is unmatched in other languages (where the same word generally covers all three and often "cloud" as well), and may be a reflection of the Eng. climate.

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