"blurry" meaning in English

See blurry in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈblɜːɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blurry.wav Forms: blurrier [comparative], blurriest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɜːɹi Etymology: From blur + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|blur|y}} blur + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} blurry (comparative blurrier, superlative blurriest)
  1. (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges. Translations (not clear, crisp, or focused): malabog (Bikol Central), borrós (Catalan), 模糊 (móhu) (Chinese Mandarin), 模糊不清 (móhubùqīng) (Chinese Mandarin), 不清楚 (bùqīngchu) (Chinese Mandarin), wazig (Dutch), eksterfokusa (Esperanto), malklara (Esperanto), sumea (Finnish), epätarkka (Finnish), epäselvä (Finnish), samea (Finnish), hämärä (Finnish), flou (French), verschwommen (German), מטושטש (Hebrew), óskýr (Icelandic), sfocato (Italian), malabug (Kapampangan), malubug (Kapampangan), ព្រិលៗ (prĭlprĭl) (Khmer), ма́тен (máten) (Macedonian), tārehu (Maori), makaro (Maori), pūrehurehu (Maori), pōrehurehu (Maori), uskarp (Norwegian Bokmål), utydelig (Norwegian Bokmål), rozmyty (Polish), nieostry (Polish), zamglony (Polish), rozmazany (Polish), borrado (Portuguese), desfocado (Portuguese), embaçado (Portuguese), расплы́вчатый (rasplývčatyj) (Russian), размы́тый (razmýtyj) (Russian), borroso (Spanish), desenfocado (Spanish), movido (Spanish), suddig (Swedish), utflytande (Swedish), oskarp (Swedish), oklar (Swedish), malabo (Tagalog), bulanık (Turkish), mờ (Vietnamese), nhoè (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-blurry-en-adj-iguVxY6h Disambiguation of 'not clear, crisp, or focused': 71 29
  2. (figuratively) Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries. Tags: figuratively Translations (lacking well-defined boundaries): 模糊 (móhu) (Chinese Mandarin), 模糊不清 (móhubùqīng) (Chinese Mandarin), 不清楚 (bùqīngchu) (Chinese Mandarin), epäselvä (Finnish), confus (French), confuso (Spanish), bulanık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-blurry-en-adj-qLMEEKS~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bikol Central translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Kapampangan translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 35 65 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Bikol Central translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Kapampangan translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of 'lacking well-defined boundaries': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: blurrily, blurriness, nonblurry, unblurry

Inflected forms

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        "(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges."
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          "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
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          "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
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          "word": "mờ"
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          "text": "It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.",
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    "Entries with translation boxes",
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    "Rhymes:English/ɜːɹi",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜːɹi/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bikol Central translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
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    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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    "Terms with Tagalog translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "blurrily"
    },
    {
      "word": "blurriness"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonblurry"
    },
    {
      "word": "unblurry"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "blur",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "blur + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "blurrier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blurriest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "blurry (comparative blurrier, superlative blurriest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clear",
          "clear"
        ],
        [
          "crisp",
          "crisp"
        ],
        [
          "focus",
          "focus"
        ],
        [
          "fuzzy",
          "fuzzy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an image"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clear",
          "clear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈblɜːɹi/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜːɹi"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "malabog"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "borrós"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "móhu",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "模糊"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "móhubùqīng",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "模糊不清"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùqīngchu",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "不清楚"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "wazig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "eksterfokusa"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "malklara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "sumea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "epätarkka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "epäselvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "samea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "hämärä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "flou"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "verschwommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "מטושטש"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "óskýr"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "sfocato"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "malabug"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "malubug"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "prĭlprĭl",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "ព្រិលៗ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "máten",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "ма́тен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "tārehu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "makaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "pūrehurehu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "pōrehurehu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "uskarp"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "utydelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "rozmyty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "nieostry"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "zamglony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "rozmazany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "borrado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "desfocado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "embaçado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasplývčatyj",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "расплы́вчатый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razmýtyj",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "размы́тый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "borroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "desenfocado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "movido"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "suddig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "utflytande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "oskarp"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "oklar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "malabo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "bulanık"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "mờ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "not clear, crisp, or focused",
      "word": "nhoè"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "móhu",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "模糊"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "móhubùqīng",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "模糊不清"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùqīngchu",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "不清楚"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "epäselvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "confus"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "confuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lacking well-defined boundaries",
      "word": "bulanık"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blurry"
}

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