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blurry

/ˈblɜːɹi/

blurry adjective: not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

blurry: not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges
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Adjective

blurry (comparative blurrier, superlative blurriest)

  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.2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025
  2. (figuratively) Not 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.2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023

blurry meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Vietnamese

blurry in Tamil

மங்கலானது

blurry in Tagalog

not clear, crisp, or focused
malabo

blurry in Vietnamese

not clear, crisp, or focused
mờ, nhoè

Examples of blurry in a sentence

  • I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
  • “I’m on da 9th day & my vision blurry af !!!!!
  • After two hours of microfishing, my vision is blurry and I can’t focus anymore.

All 15 example sentences with blurry

Forms of blurry

comparativeblurrier
superlativeblurriest

Origin of blurry

From blur + -y.

Words formed from blurry

Words that rhyme with blurry

Questions about blurry

What does blurry mean?
Blurry means not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
What is blurry in Tamil?
Blurry in Tamil is மங்கலானது. See Blurry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is blurry?
Blurry is an adjective.
How do you pronounce blurry?
Blurry is pronounced /ˈblɜːɹi/.

Words near blurry in the dictionary

  1. blurring the line
  2. blurring the lines
  3. blurringly
  4. blurrings
  5. blurrs
  6. blurry
  7. blurs
  8. blurs the line
  9. blurs the lines
  10. Blursday
  11. Blursdays

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blurry (page history and authors); blurry (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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