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Hazy vs Smoky - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between hazy and smoky

is that hazy is thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze while smoky is filled with or giving off smoke.

hazy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze.
  • Not clear or transparent.
  • Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.

    • Derived terms

    * hazily * haziness

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    smoky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * smokey

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Filled with or giving off smoke.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
  • Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
  • * 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
    • The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.
  • Having a flavour like smoke.
  • (music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
  • (obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
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