groundmist

English

Alternative forms

• ground-mist, ground mist

Etymology

ground +‎ mist

Noun

groundmist (countable and uncountable, plural groundmists)

1. A low-lying fog.
   • 1968, Robert Sherrill, Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy:

     Coleman was the last of the aristocratic governors; not truly aristocratic, of course, but such as is so designated in Mississippi, where the landed gentry claims a bloodline that disappears kindly into the groundmists four or five generations ago, an aristocracy of certitude that nothing will ever change.

   • 1999, Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis, page 471:

     The old wrought-iron lamps on Bennett's Walk cast weak electric beams through the groundmist, making me think of London and Tyne Street and Jack the Ripper.

   • 2006, Craig Davidson, Rust and Bone:

     A low fog rolled across the frozen water, faint ripples thickening into groundmist at the tree line.

   • 2011, Phil Rickman, Candlenight:

     Groundmist was waist-high and looked as thick as candlegrease. The trees were in a silent semicircle within the mist.

Synonyms

• ground fog