blurry

blurry

English

A blurry photo.

Etymology

From blur +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɜːɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɜːɹi

Adjective

blurry (comparative blurrier, superlative blurriest)

1. (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

   If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry.

2. (figuratively) Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.

   It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harrassment has become quite 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 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) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Maori: tārehu, makaro, pūrehurehu, pōrehurehu Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Polish: rozmyty, nieostry (pl), zamglony (pl), rozmazany Portuguese: borrado (pt), desfocado Russian: расплы́вчатый (ru) (rasplývčatyj) Spanish: borroso Swedish: suddig (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

lacking well-defined boundaries

Chinese: Mandarin: 模糊 (zh) (móhu), 模糊不清 (zh) (móhubùqīng), 不清楚 (zh) (bùqīngchu)

Finnish: epäselvä (fi) Spanish: confuso (es) m