flou
See also: Flou
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French flou.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flu/
- Rhymes: -u
Adjective
flou (not comparable)
- blurred, unclear
- Synonyms: onscherp, wazig
French
Etymology
From Middle French flou, from Old French flou, flo (“soft, wilted, tired, exhausted”), from Old Frankish *hlāo (“lukewarm, tepid, mild”), from Proto-Germanic *hlēwaz (“warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlēw- (“to be warm or hot”). More at lew.
Alternative etymology derives Old French flou, flo from Latin flāvus (“yellow”), via a farming metaphor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flu/
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Adjective
flou (feminine floue, masculine plural flous, feminine plural floues)
- fuzzy; blurred, blurry; unclear
Further reading
- “flou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
flou (invariable)
- blurred (image)
- flowing (clothes)
Noun
flou m (invariable)
- blurred cinematic effect
Anagrams
- fluo
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Borrowed from French flou.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flu/, [fluː]
- Rhymes: -uː
Adjective
flou (masculine flouen, neuter flout, comparative méi flou, superlative am flousten)
- vague
- blurred, unclear
- imprecise
Declension
declension of flou
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass flou | si ass flou | et ass flou | si si(nn) flou | |
nominative / accusative | attributive and/or after determiner | flouen | flou | flout | flou |
independent without determiner | floues | flouer | |||
dative | after any declined word | flouen | flouer | flouen | flouen |
as first declined word | flouem | flouem |
Synonyms
- (vague): vag
- (blurred): onschaarf, verschwommen
- (imprecise): ongenee