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blurry

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈblɜːɹi//

Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

adjective

  1. 1

    Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

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

    CNN spoke recently with several Conyers residents who said they still have blurry vision, shortness of breath, throat irritation or chronic headaches since the chemical plant fire.

  2. 2

    figurativeNot clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.

    It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harassment has become quite blurry.

    when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry.

Etymology

Etymology tree English blur Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blurry From blur + -y.

Forms

comparative
blurrier
superlative
blurriest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).