hazy
/ˈheɪzi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.14 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not clear or transparent.
adj
noun
A variety of beer (typically a pale ale, India pale ale, or double India pale ale) golden in color with softer mouthfeel and sweeter taste than its non-hazy counterpart.
Example Sentences
- "a hazy view of the polluted city street"
- "Furthermore, kymographic pictures are hazy and sometimes distorted, while the pictures obtained by diagraphy are sharp and unobstructed."
- "a hazy argument"
- "a hazy intellect"
- "If Philip seems less well drawn, "the character who is closest to the author is probably the haziest because the author is not able to see himself with the same clarity.""
- "The song’s first line is ‘‘Drop out of life with bong in hand,’’ and things only get hazier from there. ‘‘Dopesmoker’’ tells the story of a caravan of ‘‘weed-priests’’ traveling across the ‘‘sand-sea’’ in search of the ‘‘riff-filled land’’ so as to fulfill their ‘‘desert legion smoke-covenant.’’"
Etymology
From earlier hawsey (1625), a nautical term of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *hasi, *haswy, from Old English haswiġ (“grey; ashen; dusky”), from Old English hasu (“dusky; grey; ashen”), from Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“bright grey”). By surface analysis, haze + -y; although Modern English haze is more likely a back-formation of hazy.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *hasi, haswiġ, hasu, *haswaz, *ḱeh₂s-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈheɪzi/
- British English: /ˈheɪzi/