Bleary

Definitions: Bleary

Bleary

Adjective

1. Tired to the point of exhaustion.

2. Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes".

Date "bleary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Bleary

Synonyms: blear (adj), blear-eyed (adj), bleary-eyed (adj), blurred (adj), blurry (adj), foggy (adj), fuzzy (adj), hazy (adj), muzzy (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Dad, you buy that bleary business? (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Apple of My Eye 1 / Alligator Boy / Weary & Bleary [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Bleary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bleary" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	51	47,619

Expression using "bleary": bleary eye. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bleary": bleary-eyed.
	Containing "bleary": yellow-bleary-eyed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "bleary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i turbulluar (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, blear, foggy, roily), i mjegulluar (bedimmed, blear, foggy, hazy, misty, woozy). (various references)

Arabic		‏غائم (blear, clouded over, cloudy, dull, filmy, fuzzy, hazy, nebulous, woolly). (various references)

Bulgarian		неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), замъглен (befogged, blear, filmy, foggy, hazy, misted, misty, nebulous, smoky, vapory, vapoury). (various references)

Czech		kalný (cloudy, dim, dull, murky, thick, turbid). (various references)

Farsi		تیره وتار, دارای چشمان قی گرفته وخواب الود. (various references)

French		nuageux (blear, blurred), larmoyant, fatigué (bloodless), chassieux. (various references)

German		verschwommen (ambiguous, blurred, blurry, dim, dreamy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, muzzy, shadowy, vague, woolly). (various references)

Greek		τσιμπλιάρησ (blear), θολόσ (blear, blurred, clouded, hazy, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, thick, turbid, woozy). (various references)

Hebrew		ראי�" מטושטשת מעיפות. (various references)

Hungarian		csipás (bleared, gummy). (various references)

Indonesian		berair mata (blear), kabur (blurred, bolt (of a horse), decamp, elope, elopment, fading, flee, fuzzy, run off, unclear). (various references)

Italian		velato (dull, filmy, veiled), annebbiato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"眼 (bleary or drunken eyes), 目腐れ (bleary-eyed person), 爛れる (to be bleary, to be inflamed, to be sore, to fester). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た� れる (to be bleary, to be inflamed, to be sore, to fester), すいが�" (a drunken face or expression, bleary or drunken eyes, covetousness, watering at the mouth), めくされ (bleary-eyed person). (various references)

Pig Latin		earyblay

Russian		тусклый (blear, dim, dingy, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan), затуманенный (befogged, blear, cloudy, misty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nejasan (abstruse, blurred, dim, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous, obscure, recondite, unclear, undetermined, vague), mutan (dim, dingy, feculent, lacklustre, mat, matted, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid), krmeljiv. (various references)

Spanish		borroso (blurred, faint, fuzzy, indistinct, muzzy, smudgy, vague), nublado (cloud-capped, cloudy, foggy, overcast), agotado (beaten, bushed, depletive, distressful, distressing, drained, draining, effete, exhausted, gruel, jaded, outsold, overwrought, played out, shot, sold out, spent, tired, tired out, unavailable, warn out, washed out, washed up, whacked, worn out). (various references)

Swedish		utröttad, skymdig, otydlig (diaphanous, faint, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, muzzy, obscure, vague). (various references)

Thai		พร่ามัว (hazy), มองเห็นไม่ชั�"เจนเพราะง่วง. (various references)

Turkish		sulanmış (blear). (various references)

Ukranian		короткозорий (bleary-eyed, dim-sighted, mope-eyed, myopic, near-sighted), з затуманеним поглядом (bleary-eyed). (various references)

Vietnamese		mờ mắt lờ mờ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Bleary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balcary, balear, balligari, beari, beary, bewary, bilary, Bilauri, bleany, blearg, bleerk, bleery, bloar, bluery, brearly, obiliary, Sleary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bleary" (pronounced bli"rē)
4	-l i" r ē	Leary, leery.
3	-i" r ē	beery, cheery, deary, dreary, eerie, teary, theory, weary, wiry.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: barely, barley.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-r-y"
	-1 letter: abler, baler, barye, belay, beryl, blare, blear, early, layer, leary, relay, yerba.
	-2 letters: able, ably, abye, aery, aryl, bale, bare, bear, blae, brae, bray, byre, byrl, earl, eyra, lear, lyre, rale, real, rely, yare, year.
	-3 letters: aby, alb, ale, arb, are, aye, bal, bar, bay, bel, bey, bra, bye, ear, era, lab, lar.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-r-y"
	+1 letter: barleys, bilayer, blarney, bravely, dryable.
	+2 letters: badgerly, bankerly, barrenly, bearably, beggarly, betrayal, bilayers, biyearly, bladdery, blarneys, blearily, brazenly, cymbaler, diablery, operably, rateably, readably, reliably, slabbery, urbanely, verbally.
	+3 letters: agreeably, alterably, baroquely, bearishly, betrayals, bizarrely, blaeberry, blarneyed, breathily, cymbalers, desirably, embryonal, endurably, execrably, hyperbola, liberally, memorably, miserably, refutably, removably, renewably, repayable, reputably, superably, tolerably, venerably, veritably.
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