blurry

[ blur-ee ]

/ ˈblɜr i /

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adjective, blur·ri·er, blur·ri·est.

blurred; indistinct.

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Origin of blurry

blur + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM blurry

blur·ri·ly, adverbblur·ri·ness, noun

Words nearby blurry

blunthead, bluntly, blur, Blu-ray, blurb, blurry, blurt, blurt out, blush, blusher, blush-on

How to use blurry in a sentence

Just think of all the blurry, low-resolution YouTube videos and questionably-procured episodes of TV you’ve watched over the years.
How to livestream an event for all your friends and family|Harry Guinness|November 25, 2020|Popular-Science
Medical experts acknowledge the lines are blurry for kids with symptoms.
Families and daycares struggle to navigate COVID rules with germy kids|Rachel Schallom|November 2, 2020|Fortune
It’s about looking at the blurry future and trying to choose the right line.
Building Stoke for a Winter Unlike Any Other|Heather Hansman|October 26, 2020|Outside Online
Now, Apple has increased the size of the sensor inside the iPhone 12 Pro Max by 50 percent, which will have some effect on how much of your shot is blurry and how much is sharp.
Planning to buy an iPhone 12 Pro Max? You may want to brush up on your photography skills.|Stan Horaczek|October 14, 2020|Popular-Science

So these terms they get blurry a little bit in the cyber world.
Speak Softly and Carry Big Data (Ep. 395)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 31, 2019|Freakonomics
How does the American experience differ when the lines get blurry?
What It's Like To Be Ambiguously Ethnic|The Daily Beast Video|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, the line between life and death is, without a doubt, blurry.
What It’s Like to Wake Up Dead|Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD, Tej Azad|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The line between Move America Forward and the Move America Forward Freedom PAC is even more blurry.
Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead|Kim Barker|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With conflict lines constantly shifting, the categorization of who got what and from where has become increasingly blurry.
In Syria’s Hunger Games, Starvation Could Be the Next W.M.D.|Raj Salooja|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are some more specialty shots too, and it all starts to get a little blurry.
The Secret Speakeasies of Buenos Aires|Jeff Campagna|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a blurry easterly squall of sleet that night, Donald saw one of them “giving her main-sheet” for home.
The Viking Blood|Frederick William Wallace
That white spot—that is a little furry coat—such a little furry coat and getting so far off, and so blurry.
The Ship Dwellers|Albert Bigelow Paine
From there on the frames are too blurry as his head disappears you can't really see any expression on his face.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
He can't bile water without burnin' it, and his toes turns in, and he's blurry round the finger-nails.
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories|Owen Wister
She'd make a blurry tortoise crick his blurry neck looking round to see why she was dawdling behind.
The Vanity Girl|Compton Mackenzie