blurry

English

A blurry photo.

Etymology

From blur +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈblɜːɹi/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɜːɹi

Adjective

blurry (comparative blurrier, superlative blurriest)

(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry.
(figuratively) Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.
It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.
- 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian‎:
  when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.

Derived terms

blurriness

Translations

not clear, crisp, or focused

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Bikol Central: malabog (bcl)
Catalan: borrós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 模糊 (zh) (móhu), 模糊不清 (zh) (móhubùqīng), 不清楚 (zh) (bùqīngchu)
Dutch: wazig (nl)
Esperanto: eksterfokusa, malklara
Finnish: sumea (fi), epätarkka (fi), epäselvä (fi), samea (fi), hämärä (fi)
French: flou (fr)
German: verschwommen (de)
Hebrew: מטושטש
Icelandic: óskýr
Italian: sfocato (it)
Kapampangan: malabug, malubug
Khmer: ព្រិលៗ (prĭlprĭl)
Macedonian: ма́тен (máten)
Maori: tārehu, makaro, pūrehurehu, pōrehurehu
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: uskarp, utydelig
Polish: rozmyty, nieostry (pl), zamglony (pl), rozmazany
Portuguese: borrado (pt), desfocado, embaçado (pt)
Russian: расплы́вчатый (ru) (rasplývčatyj), размы́тый (ru) (razmýtyj)
Spanish: borroso, desenfocado (es), movido (es)
Swedish: suddig (sv), utflytande, oskarp (sv), oklar (sv)
Tagalog: malabo
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: bulanık (tr)
Vietnamese: mờ (vi), nhoè (vi)

lacking well-defined boundaries

Chinese:
Mandarin: 模糊 (zh) (móhu), 模糊不清 (zh) (móhubùqīng), 不清楚 (zh) (bùqīngchu)
Finnish: epäselvä (fi)
French: confus (fr)
Spanish: confuso (es)
Turkish: bulanık (tr)

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