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Definition of Mistful
1. a. Clouded with, or as with, mist.
Definition of Mistful
1. Adjective. Clouded with, or as with, mist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mistful
1. full of mist [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistful
Literary usage of Mistful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"Overcast, clouded, covered with gloom, dim, as if in a mist, mistful. '2.
(Speaking of colours) Somewhat more obscure than the rest. ..."
2. The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of by William Shakespeare (1807)
"compassion quell'd 5 With mistful eyes,'] The ... The poet must have wrote—mistful:
ie just ready to overrun with tears. ..."
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