Blurred

Definition: Blurred

Blurred

Adjective

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

2. Unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blurred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonyms: Blurred

Crosswords: Blurred

Books

• A Blurred Reality: An Eric Ward Novel (Us) (reference)

• Blurred Boundaries: Critical Essays on American Literature, Language, and Culture (reference)

• Blurred Images (reference)

• Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World (reference)

• Through a Glass, Darkly: Blurred Images of Cultural Tradition and Modernity over Distance and Time (International Studies in Sociology and Social ant (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Blurred Crusade [IMPORT] (reference)

• Blurred in Six (reference)

• Blurred Visions (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A very blurred photograph, taken prior to World War I. She was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 10 August 1917 as USS Mikawe (SP-309). On 24 April 1919, this craft was transferred to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

All these details, blurred by the twilight, were becoming clearer and clearer in the growing light

Under the clinging man the highway blurred dizzily by.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Problems with eyesight such as blurred or double vision. (references)

After the examination, close-up vision may remain blurred for several hours. (references)

They may alter the cornea's normal curvature, causing periodic blurred vision. (references)

Economic History

Lesotho

Distinctions and differences in political orientation between the major parties have blurred in recent years. (references)

Ukraine

Local surveys and "experts" should be treated with some caution, as their objectivity can tend to be blurred by vested interests. (references)

Papua New Guinea

The economy generally can be separated into subsistence and market sectors, although the distinction is blurred by smallholder cash cropping of coffee, cocoa, and copra. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

The pervasiveness of corruption, connections between government officials and organized crime, and the political activities of organized crime figures often blurred the distinction between political and criminal acts. (references)

China

Prison officials in Xinjiang have not allowed family members of businesswoman and prominent Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to bring her medicine for heart disease since her arrest in August 1999. She is said to be in poor health, suffering from painful feet, blurred vision, and impaired hearing. (references)

Bulgaria

The European Union Accession Report on Judicial Independence that was issued during the year stated that because the Constitution provides for independence of the "judicial power," which includes judges, public prosecutors, and investigating magistrates, the separation of these powers is blurred and the independence of judges is compromised. (references)

Political Economy

Tunisia

THERE ARE SIX LEGAL OPPOSITION PARTIES, ALL OF WHICH SUPPORT THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF TUNISIA'S ECONOMIC POLICY BUT CRITICIZE WHAT THEY SEE AS BLURRED LINES BETWEEN THE RCD AND THE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY. (references)

Trade

Israel

The marking should not be blurred. (references)

Australia

In Australia, the distinction between retail banks and investment banks is increasingly blurred. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "blurred": be blurred ♦ become blurred ♦ get blurred. Additional references.

Beginning with "blurred": blurred-vision.

Ending with "blurred": rain-blurred.

Chinese 

糢 , 弄脏 (Blotted, Blotting, Blurring, fouled, Fouling, smudged, Smudging, soiled, soiling, stained, staining). (various references)

Czech

zakalit se (get blurred). (various references)

Danish

tilsloeret rude (blurred pane). (various references)

Dutch

beglazen (glazing), wazig, onscherp (fuzzy, non-sharp, out of focus). (various references)

Esperanto

kondenskovriĝi (dim, get blurred). (various references)

Finnish

samennettu. (various references)

French

flou (blurring). (various references)

German

verschwommen (ambiguous, bleary, blurry, dim, dreamy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, muzzy, shadowy, vague, woolly), unscharf (blank, dim, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, murky, out of focus, unclear, unprimed, unsharp), verwischt (blurs, smudged). (various references)

Greek 

Θάμπωμα(ελάττωμα υάλου κοβαλτίου), θολόσ (blear, bleary, clouded, hazy, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, thick, turbid, woozy), θολός (clouded, dim, turbid), θολωμένος (clouded, dim). (various references)

Hungarian

elmosódott (blurry, faint, foggy, slurred, smudgy, washed out), alig észrevehető (faint, inconspicuous, insensible), életlen (blunt, fuzzy, have a blunt edge, hollow). (various references)

Indonesian

sayup-sayup (faintly heard, indistinct, scarcely), kabur (bleary, bolt (of a horse), decamp, elope, elopment, fading, flee, fuzzy, run off, unclear). (various references)

Italian

sfocato (fuzzy, hazy, out of focus, vague), decorazione sfocata. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掠る (to become blurred, to exploit, to graze, to squeeze), ぶら下げる (camera shake, for a camera to be shaken, picture blur, shaking, shivering with cold or fear, to be blurred, to dangle, to hang, to suspend, to swing, trembling), ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼやける (to become blurred, to become dim), ぶれる (for a camera to be shaken, to be blurred), かする (to be reduced, to become blurred, to change into, to convert into, to exploit, to graze, to impose, to improve, to inflict, to influence, to squeeze, to take a percentage, to touch lightly, to transform). (various references)

Korean 

희미해지는. (various references)

Pig Latin

urredblay.(various references)

Portuguese

manchado esbatido. (various references)

Romanian

indistinct (faint, hazy, indistinct), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamagljen (befogged, misted, vapoury), pomućen (fuzzy), nejasan (abstruse, bleary, dim, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous, obscure, recondite, unclear, undetermined, vague). (various references)

Spanish

borroso (bleary, faint, fuzzy, indistinct, muzzy, smudgy, vague), empañado (cloudy, dim, faint, filmy, misty, steamy, tarnished), desvaído (gaunt), confuso (confused, dim, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, hot under the collar, irresolute, messy, mixed up, perplexing, ragged, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Swedish

suddig (foggy, fuzzy, muzzy, smudgy). (various references)

Turkish

bulanık (blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid), flu (out of focus), donuk (blear, clouded, colourless, dead, diaphanous, dim, dull, dullish, frosty, glassy, inanimate, mat, Matt, opaque, toneless). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпливчастий (deliquescent, flabby, indistinct, loose, nebulous), вимазаний, неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), нечіткий (ambiguous, amorphous, crabbed, cramped, illegible, nubilous, obscure), забруднений (bedraggled, contaminated, drossy, feculent, maculate, smudgy, splotchy, stained). (various references)

Misspellings

"Blurred" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blurbed, blured, bluured. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: burled, burler, burred.

-2 letters: blued, bluer, lubed, lured, lurer, redub, ruble, ruder, ruled, ruler.

-3 letters: bedu, bled, blue, blur, bred, burd, burl, burr, drub, duel, dure, durr, leud, lube, lude, lure, rube, rude, rued, ruer, rule.

-4 letters: bed, bel, brr, bud, bur, deb, del, dub, due, eld, err, led, leu, reb, red, rub, rue.

+2 letters: blunderer, burladero.

+3 letters: blunderers, burladeros, cloudberry, lumberyard, perdurable, perdurably.

+4 letters: burglarized, irreducible, irreducibly, lumberyards.

+5 letters: boulevardier, cloudberries, flutterboard, relubricated, reproducible, reproducibly.