blurry

English

A blurry photo.

Etymology

From blur +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɜːɹi/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• 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 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

• 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
• 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uskarp, utydelig

• Polish: rozmyty, nieostry (pl), zamglony (pl), rozmazany
• Portuguese: borrado (pt), desfocado, embaçado (pt)
• Russian: расплы́вчатый (ru) (rasplývčatyj)
• 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: 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)
• French: confus (fr)
• Spanish: confuso (es)
• Turkish: bulanık (tr)