English[edit]
A blurry photo.
Etymology[edit]
From blur + -y.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
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.
- (figurative) 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[1]:when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not clear, crisp, or focused
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Bikol Central: malabog
- 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)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: bulanık (tr)
- Vietnamese: mờ (vi), nhoè (vi)
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lacking well-defined boundaries
