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: מתושתש‎‎
• 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