Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
in a misty manner;
- Example: "the summits of the mountains were mistily purple"2.
in a vague way;
- Example: "he looked vaguely familiar"- Example: "he explained it somewhat mistily"[syn: vaguely, mistily]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mistily \Mist"i*ly\, adv.
With mist; darkly; obscurely.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mistily
adv 1: in a misty manner; "the summits of the mountains were
mistily purple"
2: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained
it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely, mistily]