Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by the presence of haze; misty.
- adjective Unclear, confused, or uncertain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Opaque with haze; obscured by light fog or smoke; dull; misty: used with reference to the state of the atmosphere, or to atmospheric effects, as in a picture: as, a hazy morning; a hazy landscape.
- Lacking distinctness; obscure; vague; confused: applied to thought and expression: as, a hazy reasoner; a hazy proposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
- adjective Obscure; confused; not clear
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Thick with
haze ; somewhat obscured with haze. - adjective Not
clear ortransparent . - adjective
Obscure ; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazyintellect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective filled or abounding with fog or mist
- adjective indistinct or hazy in outline
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His most recent memories seemed to be of lying on a trolley in the Landau Clinic, while technicians prepared him for the scan — on the face of it, a bad sign — but he'd been overwrought, and he'd spent so long psyching himself up for “this”, that perhaps he'd forgotten coming home, still hazy from the anaesthetic, crashing into bed, dreaming …
Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Permutation City Prologue - Greg Egan Blue Tyson 2010
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Bad hires for unqualified/unethical people in hazy but very expensive positions such as Norris Lozano for the infamous New Markets Tax Credit program
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His most recent memories seemed to be of lying on a trolley in the Landau Clinic, while technicians prepared him for the scan — on the face of it, a bad sign — but he'd been overwrought, and he'd spent so long psyching himself up for “this”, that perhaps he'd forgotten coming home, still hazy from the anaesthetic, crashing into bed, dreaming …
Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Certainly the ranks of the Communist Party was purged as was the Soviet Officer Corps, but all is referred in hazy percentages.
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In this case, though, what she is becoming is lost in hazy metaphors of? out of darkness and into the sun.?
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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In this case, though, what she is becoming is lost in hazy metaphors of? out of darkness and into the sun.?
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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At one point, Clinton walked in hazy sunshine down Gran Avenida, a busy commercial street lined with thousands of people, including schoolchildren in blue and white uniforms, many of them chanting “Clinton, Clinton.”
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In this case, though, what she is becoming is lost in hazy metaphors of? out of darkness and into the sun.?
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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In this case, though, what she is becoming is lost in hazy metaphors of? out of darkness and into the sun.?
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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More hazy is the percentage of tickets that land on the secondary market, sold by lottery winners, coaches and other insiders to brokers, who resell them at four-figure markups.
USATODAY.com - Boxed out: Final Four seats hard to come by 2005
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