BLURRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blurry mean? 

• BLURRY (adjective)
  The adjective BLURRY has 1 sense:

1. indistinct or hazy in outline

  Familiarity information: BLURRY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLURRY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indistinct or hazy in outline

Synonyms:

bleary; blurred; blurry; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; muzzy

Context example:

the trees were just blurry shapes

Similar:

indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)

Derivation:

blur (a hazy or indistinct representation)

blurriness (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual has or had blurry eyesight.

(Have Blurry Eyesight, NCI Thesaurus)

The symptoms can include: • Being very thirsty • Urinating often • Feeling very hungry or tired • Losing weight without trying • Having sores that heal slowly • Having blurry eyesight

(Diabetes Type 2, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The blurry image taken in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, suggests the night parrot is fighting back from the brink of extinction.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

The rest of the surface was either in darkness or seen as blurry markings.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

The technique, which the researchers call expansion microscopy, uses an expandable polymer and water to swell brain tissue to about four and a half times its usual size, so that nanoscale structures once blurry appear sharp with an ordinary confocal microscope.

(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)

Symptoms may include: • Being very thirsty • Urinating often • Feeling very hungry or tired • Losing weight without trying • Having sores that heal slowly • Having dry, itchy skin • Losing the feeling in your feet or having tingling in your feet • Having blurry eyesight

(Diabetes Type 1, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)