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English
A blurry photo.
Etymology
From blur + -y .
Pronunciation
Adjective
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 .
( 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 :when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry .
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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 (bcl)
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) , schwammig (de) , nebulös (de) , diffus (de) , unklar (de) , unscharf (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)
Tagalog: malabo
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: bulanık (tr)
Vietnamese: mờ (vi) , nhoè (vi)
lacking well-defined boundaries