Blurry

blur  (blûr)

v. blurred, blur·ring, blurs

v.tr.

1. To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure.

2. To smear or stain; smudge.

3. To lessen the perception of; dim: "For street children . . . drugs offer the chance to blur their hopeless poverty" Alma Guillermoprieto.

v.intr.

1. To become indistinct.

2. To make smudges or stains by smearing.

n.

1. A smear or blot; a smudge.

2. Something that is hazy and indistinct to the sight or mind.

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[Probably akin to Middle English bleren, to blear.]

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blurri·ness n.

blurry adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

blurry - indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" blurred, muzzy, bleary, foggy, fuzzy, hazy indistinct - not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"