misty

adj

1. Covered in mist; foggy.

   “It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!”

2. (figuratively)Dim; vague; obscure.

   “a misty memory of his childhood”

   “My remembrances of the place and its people are misty — all about it seem more like something I once saw in a dream, but whose characters time has effaced.”

   “Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.”

   “But she soon found out how little equipped she was for college study. Not only was Ms. Segovia’s English rocky, but she had only the mistiest notions of what college was all about.”

3. (figuratively)With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

   “Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.”

name

1. A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.