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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloudy air |
| Synonyms: | brume, cloud, dimness, film, fog, fumes, ground clouds, haziness, indistinctness, miasma, mist, murk, obscurity, smog, smokiness, smother, soup, steam, vapor |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | clarity, clearness |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
| Synonyms: | billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| Main Entry: | confusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disoriented state |
| Synonyms: | abashment, ado, anarchy, astonishment, bustle, chaos, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, consternation, daze, difficulty, disarray, discomposure, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, emotional upset, ferment, fog, fracas, haze, hodge-podge, imbroglio, intricacy, jumble, labyrinth, mess, mistake, muddle, mystification, pandemonium, perturbation, racket, riot, row, shambles, stir, stupefaction, surprise, tangle, trouble, tumult, turmoil, untidiness, upheaval, uproar, wilderness |
| Antonyms: | calm, clarity, composure, method, order, organization, orientation, system |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, blacken, cloud over, cloud up, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, make dim, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down |
| Antonyms: | brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
| Main Entry: | daze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confusion |
| Synonyms: | befuddlement, bewilderment, distraction, gauze, glaze, haze, lala-land, maze, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance |
| Antonyms: | expectation, understanding |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | darken; obscure |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blur, cloud, dull, eclipse, fade, fog, haze, lower, muddy, obfuscate, pale, tarnish, turn down |
| Antonyms: | brighten, lighten |
| Main Entry: | film |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, tissue; mist |
| Synonyms: | blur, brume, cloud, coat, covering, dusting, fabric, foil, fold, gauze, haze, haziness, integument, layer, leaf, membrane, mistiness, nebula, obscuration, opacity, partition, pellicle, scum*, sheet, skin, transparency, veil, web |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy mist that reduces visibility |
| Synonyms: | London fog, brume, cloud, effluvium, film, gloom, grease, ground clouds, haze, miasma, murk, murkiness, nebula, obscurity, pea soup, smaze, smog, smoke, smother, soup, steam, vapor, visibility zero-zero, wisp |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | clearness |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental unclarity |
| Synonyms: | befuddlement, blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, muddledness, muddlement, obscurity, perplexity, stupor, trance, vagueness |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, understanding |
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