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Definition: Blurry |
BlurryAdjective1. Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BlurrySynonyms: bleary (adj), blurred (adj), foggy (adj), fuzzy (adj), hazy (adj), muzzy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blurry |
| English words defined with "blurry": bleary, blurred ♦ foggy, fuzzy ♦ hazy ♦ muzzy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Everything's so blurry (Blurry; performing artist: Puddle Of Mudd) | |
Song Titles | Blurry (performing artist: Puddle Of Mudd) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Blurry little weeds with purple flowers and an Agua Fria National Monument mountain range in the background. Credit: Beth Perault. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Blurry orchid" by Claire Jones Commentary: "It's a blurry picture of an orchid. it hasn't been messed about with it just happened like this." | "Blurry palm tree" by Pedro Valdeolmillos Commentary: "Palm tree at Plaça Reial, Barcelona." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cloudy or blurry vision. (references) | |
For the rest of the day, your vision may be a little blurry. (references) | ||
You can quickly return to many everyday activities, but your vision may be blurry. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blurry" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blurry" is used about 32 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% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "blurry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | verschwommen (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, dim, dreamy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, muzzy, shadowy, vague, woolly). (various references) | |
Greek | λερωμένοσ (bedraggled, soiled), αμαυρόσ (opaque), θαμπόσ (blear, mat). (various references) | |
Hungarian | foltos (blobby, blotchy, flawy, foxed, foxy, freckled, mottled, Pinto, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, splodgy, spotted, spotty, stained), elmosódott (blurred, faint, foggy, slurred, smudgy, washed out). (various references) | |
Indonesian | samar-samar (blur, cryptic, vague, vaguely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urryblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | borrado (dauby, smudgy). (various references) | |
Turkish | bulanık (blurred, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blurry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bluery, blurr, blurty, blury, Bourri, Bourry, lury. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blurry" (pronounced bler"ē) |
| 3 | -l er" ē | flurry, slurry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-r-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: burly, burry. | |
-2 letters: blur, burl, burr, bury, byrl, ruby, ruly. | |
-3 letters: brr, bur, buy, rub, urb. | |
-4 letters: by. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-r-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: blurrily, burglary, mulberry. | |
+3 letters: blueberry. | |
+4 letters: blurringly, cloudberry, lumberyard, perdurably, rubrically. | |
+5 letters: barbarously, butterflyer, corruptibly, huckleberry, irrecusably, irreducibly, irrefutably, lumberyards, orbicularly, subliterary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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