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Definition: Misty-eyed |
Misty-eyedAdjective1. Having eyes blurred as with tears; "sad and misty-eyed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "misty-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
| "Misty-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Misty-eyed" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "misty-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | сентиментальный до слез, одурманенный (besotted, blotto, dopey). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | uỷ mị (flabby, flaccid, lackadaisical, maudlin, mushy, soft), sướt mướt (corny, lachrymose, mawkish, mushy, sloppy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-s-t-y-y" | |
-2 letters: stymied. | |
-3 letters: demies, demise, demits, emydes, itemed, misted, stymie. | |
-4 letters: deems, deets, deism, deist, deity, demes, demit, diets, dimes, disme, dites, ditsy, edits, emits, emyde, emyds, items, meeds, meets, meted, metes, metis, midst, misty, mites, mysid, seedy, sited, smite, steed, stied, stime, stimy, styed, stymy, teems, tides, timed, times, tyees, yetis. | |
-5 letters: deem, dees. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 73 74 79 2D 65 79 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01110011 01110100 01111001 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i s t y - e y e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 0073 0074 0079 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47758586911571917170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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