Fuzzy

Definition: Fuzzy

Fuzzy

Adjective

1. Covering with fine light hairs; "his head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed".

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

3. Confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out; "a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance".

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

Date "fuzzy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Note: Fuzzy \Fuzz"y\, adjective. [See Fuzz, noun.]. (references)

Computing

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

Synonyms: Fuzzy

Crosswords: Fuzzy

I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop (Some Like It Hot; writing credit: Robert Thoeren; M. Logan)

Mmmm fuzzy. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'll slack you off, you fuzzy little foreigner (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

Give Reese a slice from the fuzzy side and I didn't see a thing (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Yeah. Those tall, fuzzy hats ain't cheap, huh (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Little fuzzy pups, (I Love; performing artist: Tom T. Hall)

Does fuzzy logic tickle? (references; author: unknown)

What has four legs, is big, green, fuzzy, and if it fell out of a tree would kill you?  A pool table. (references; author: unknown)

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he? (references; author: unknown)

The fuzzy bee buzzed the buzzy busy beehive. (references; author: unknown)

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)

Fuzzy Wuzzy (1946)

Nadia: The Secret of Fuzzy (1991)

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Books

• Economic Theory of Fuzzy Equilibria: An Axiomatic Analysis (reference)

• Get Fuzzy 2003 Block Calendar: Scratch-A-Day (reference)

• Fuzzy Bellies (reference)

• Pipe Cleaners Gone Crazy: A Complete Guide to Bending Fuzzy Sticks (reference)

• Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings: Fold-Out Fun With Textures, Colors, Shapes, Animals (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fuzzy Sets And Systems (reference)

• Ieee Transactions On Fuzzy Systems (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scramble to Better Golf with Fuzzy Zoeller (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fuzzy Logic (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fetco International Fuzzy Cow Frame With Bell 4 x 6 (Pink) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Lumiscope 1094 Blood Pressure Monitor, Fuzzy Logic (reference)

• Zojirushi NS-JCC10 Neuro Fuzzy 5-Cup Rice Cooker (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Illustration showing fuzzy mold colony (left lower) made up of branching filaments called hyphae (left upper); smooth yeast colony (right lower) made up of ovoid cells (right upper). Credit: CDC.

Sabouraud's dextrose agar plate culture of soil isolate of Histoplasma capsulatum showing typical fuzzy appearance of mold colony. Credit: CDC.

"It comes out fuzzy" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. Without the aid of the New Guinea natives, many a wounded Allied soldier might have died in the trackless jungles. Native carriers "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" are shown bringing wounded troops into an advanced Amer. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fuzzy": fuzzy computing ♦ fuzzy grain ♦ fuzzy logic ♦ fuzzy reasoning ♦ fuzzy set ♦ fuzzy set theory ♦ fuzzy subset ♦ fuzzy theory ♦ go fuzzy. Additional references.

Beginning with "fuzzy": fuzzy-edged, fuzzy-head, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-matching, fuzzy-sounding, fuzzy-thinking, fuzzy-wuzzies, fuzzy-wuzzy.

Ending with "fuzzy": fizzy-fuzzy.

Arabic 

‏غير واضح (cloudy, dull, foggy, fuzziness, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, nebulous, unclear, vague), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏غائم (blear, bleary, clouded over, cloudy, dull, filmy, hazy, nebulous, woolly), ‏أجعد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ситно къдрав (kinky), разнищен, неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, 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), мъхнат (fluffy, mossy, shaggy), бухнал (light). (various references)

Chinese 

模糊 (indistinct, vague). (various references)

Czech

rozmazaný (blotchy), plstnatý, neostrý, nejasný (abstruse, ambiguous, dim, dimmish, equivocal, faint, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, obscure, stolid, tenuous, unclear, vague, woolly), kudrnatý (crinkly, curly, frizzly, frizzy), kuèeravý (crinkly, curly), chlupatý (furry, hairy, hirsute, rough). (various references)

Danish

fuzzy theory (fuzzy logic, fuzzy theory), fuzzy logic (fuzzy logic, fuzzy theory), fuzzy (fuzzy logic, fuzzy theory). (various references)

Dutch

nevelig (misty), mistig (misty), heiig (misty), dampig (misty). (various references)

Esperanto

nebula (misty). (various references)

Finnish

sumea logiikka (fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory, fuzzy theory, possibilistic logic). (various references)

French

flou (fuzzily, fuzziness). (various references)

Frisian

dizich (misty), dampich (misty), damp (fog, mist, misty, moist, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

German

unscharf (blank, blurred, dim, hazy, indistinct, murky, out of focus, unclear, unprimed, unsharp). (various references)

Greek 

σκονισμένοσ (dusty), χνουδάτοσ (downy, fluffy), χνουδάτος, ασαφήσ (ambiguous, blear, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, misty, vague), θεωρία της ασάφειας (fuzzy theory). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעורפל (dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, shadowy), מסולסל (curled, curly, exalted, florid, flowery, fulsome, ornate, ringleted, waved), עמום (abstruse, dim, faint, frosting, muzzy, obscure, obtuse, opaque, tarnish, vague). (various references)

Hungarian

bolyhos (cottony, fluey, fluffy, frieze, furry, hairy, hirsute, nappy, piled, pubescent), spicces (festive, jolly, mellow, pickled, pixilated), rojtos (tasselled, tufted), pityókos (pickled, tiddley, tiddly, to be well primed), borzas (disheveled, dishevelled, rumpled, unkempt), életlen (blunt, blurred, have a blunt edge, hollow). (various references)

Indonesian

kabur (bleary, blurred, bolt (of a horse), decamp, elope, elopment, fading, flee, run off, unclear), berbulu (furred, plumy). (various references)

Italian

teoria fuzzy (fuzzy logic, fuzzy theory), sfocato (blurred, hazy, out of focus, vague), logica fuzzy (fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory, fuzzy theory, possibilistic logic), lanuginoso (downy, fluffy), indistinto (dim, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, nebulous, shadowy, undistinguishable, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague), di peluria, crespo (crape, crepe, crisp, frizzy, georgette), confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, confused, dazed, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ファイル分離キャラクタ (bassoon, facade, facility, FACOM, facsimile, fact, faction, factor, factoring, factory, factory automation, factory team, fagot-stitch, fagotting stitch, fascism, fascist, fax, Feynman, file separator, finder, fine, fine ceramics, fine chemical, fine food, fine play, foul, foul line, foul tip, foundation, fuzzy computer, fuzzy logic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ファジー . (various references)

Korean 

솜털 모양. (various references)

Manx

dullyr (black, black as outlook, blear, blear of outline, dim, dimness, dingy, dusky, gloom, gloomy, lowering, muzzy, opaque). (various references)

Norwegian

flokete, krusete. (various references)

Pig Latin

uzzyfay.(various references)

Portuguese

frisado (crimpy, friz, frizz, frizzed, frizzly, terry), flocoso (flaky), felpudo (cottony, plushy), vago (empty, faraway, general, half-hearted, hazy, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, jumbled up, lax, loose, nebulous, neutral, remote, spare, transcendental, vacant, vague), penugento, ondulado (corrugated, crimp, downy, ripply, rolling, undulate, undulated, waved, wavy), ligeiramente embriagado, indistinto (dim, hazy, inarticulate, incompact, indistinct, lax, misty, mum, nebulous, thick, tight-lipped), impreciso (blear, hit-and-miss, imprecise, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, indeterminate, lacklustre, sketchy, vague, wrong), esfipado, crespo (craped, crimped, crimpy, curly, frizzly). (various references)

Romanian

zbârlit (bristly, dishevelled, fluffy, horrent, tousled), scãmos (fibrous, nappy, piled), pufos (downy, fluffy, piled, soft). (various references)

Russian 

нечеткий (ill-defined, illegible, indistinct). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomućen (blurred), nejasan (abstruse, bleary, blurred, dim, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous, obscure, recondite, unclear, undetermined, vague), maljav (hairy, shaggy). (various references)

Spanish

brumoso (foggy, hazy, misty). (various references)

Swedish

fjunig (downy, Flossy), töcknig (hazy, misty), suddig (blurred, foggy, muzzy, smudgy), oskarp logik (fuzzy logic, fuzzy theory), oklar (cloudy, dim, incoherent, indefinite, indistinct, misty, nebulous, obscure, opaque, sketchy, unclear, woolly), luddig (downy, fluffy, nappy, woolly), disig (hazy, misty, vaporous), dimmig (brumous, dimmish, foggy, hazy, misty). (various references)

Thai

เป็นฝอยๆ. (various references)

Turkish

uçuşan (air borne, flyaway), tüy gibi (as light as feather, downy, feathery, penniform, plumy), kabarık saçlı, ince tüylü (cottony, sericeous), hayal meyal (dreaming, dreamy, indistinct, indistinctly, misty, shadowy, vague), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague). (various references)

Ukrainian

кучерявий (crimpy, curling, curly, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, waved, wavy), ворсистий, неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, dusk, faint, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), пушистий (lanuginous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xơ xoắn, sờn (shabby), mờ nhạt. (various references)

caliginosus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Fuzzy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buzzy, fazzi, fezy, fizy, fuazy, fudzy, Fuiza, fuz, fuzey, fuzie, fuzy, Fuzzey, huzzy, tuzzy, uzz, uzzy, wuzzy. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fuzz.

+2 letters: fuzzily.