Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mist
Participle: misted
Gerund: misting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mist |
| you | mist |
| he;she;it | mists |
| we | mist |
| you | mist |
| they | mist |
Perfect
| I | have misted |
| you | have misted |
| he;she;it | has misted |
| we | have misted |
| you | have misted |
| they | have misted |
Past
| I | misted |
| you | misted |
| he;she;it | misted |
| we | misted |
| you | misted |
| they | misted |
Pluperfect
| I | had misted |
| you | had misted |
| he;she;it | had misted |
| we | had misted |
| you | had misted |
| they | had misted |
Future
| I | will mist |
| you | will mist |
| he;she;it | will mist |
| we | will mist |
| you | will mist |
| they | will mist |
Future Perfect
| I | will have misted |
| you | will have misted |
| he;she;it | will have misted |
| we | will have misted |
| you | will have misted |
| they | will have misted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mist |
| you | mist |
| he;she;it | mist |
| we | mist |
| you | mist |
| they | mist |
Perfect
| I | have misted |
| you | have misted |
| he;she;it | have misted |
| we | have misted |
| you | have misted |
| they | have misted |
Imperfect
| I | misted |
| you | misted |
| he;she;it | misted |
| we | misted |
| you | misted |
| they | misted |
Pluperfect
| I | had misted |
| you | had misted |
| he;she;it | had misted |
| we | had misted |
| you | had misted |
| they | had misted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mist |
| you | would mist |
| he;she;it | would mist |
| we | would mist |
| you | would mist |
| they | would mist |
Perfect
| I | would have misted |
| you | would have misted |
| he;she;it | would have misted |
| we | would have misted |
| you | would have misted |
| they | would have misted |
Imperative
| you | mist |
| we | Let's mist |
| you | mist |
Verbs conjugated like 'mist'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mist'
fist,
gist,
hist,
kist,
list,
mast,
milt,
mint,
miss,
moist,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).
2. The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian. See: Scots '
mist', Middle English '
misten'.
Sample Sentences
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It's misting this morning.
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I mist my tropical plants every morning.
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... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain. [1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235:]
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On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance. [2013 April 2, Don Pendleton, Nuclear Intent, Gold Eagle, →ISBN, page 238:]
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... rain misting outside from thick clouds. [2023 November 20, Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series: The Power of Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life through Positive Thinking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 25:]
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The lens was misted.
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her breath will mist or staine the stone [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]
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My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.