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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof

Meaning of "blurry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLURRY

blurry  [ˈblɜːrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLURRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blurry is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BLURRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blurry

"Blurry" is a song by American alternative group Puddle of Mudd. It was released in October 2001 as the second single from the album Come Clean. The song is the band's best known song, reaching the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts for ten and nine weeks, respectively. This soon propelled the single to mainstream success, reaching the number 5 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay and Billboard Hot 100. The song is also the band's highest selling U.S. single ever, with sales of 753,000 copies, as of 2010. Additionally, the song's writers, Wes Scantlin, Doug Ardito, and Jimmy Allen won ASCAP Song of the Year and Pop Song of the Year for this tune. "Blurry" also won 2 billboard awards in 2002, for "modern rock track of the year" and "rock track of the year". It also received the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. "Blurry" reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart on its release there in June 2002, becoming the band's highest charting single in the United Kingdom.

Definition of blurry in the English dictionary

The definition of blurry in the dictionary is unclear.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLURRY


Bari
ˈbɑːrɪ
burry
ˈbɜːrɪ
Cagliari
kælˈjɑːrɪ
corey
ˈkɔːrɪ
cory
ˈkɔːrɪ
firry
ˈfɜːrɪ
furry
ˈfɜːrɪ
glory
ˈɡlɔːrɪ
lari
lɑːrɪ
Maggiore
ˌmædʒɪˈɔːrɪ
Mari
ˈmɑːrɪ
MORI
ˈmɔːrɪ
safari
səˈfɑːrɪ
saree
ˈsɑːrɪ
sari
ˈsɑːrɪ
smirry
ˈsmɜːrɪ
smurry
ˈsmɜːrɪ
story
ˈstɔːrɪ
Tory
ˈtɔːrɪ
whirry
ˈwɜːrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLURRY

blur
blurb
blurbist
blurred
blurred vision
blurredly
blurredness
blurrily
blurriness
blurring
blurringly
blurt
blurter
blush
blusher
blushet
blushful
blushing
blushingly
blushless

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLURRY

curry
durry
flurry
give someone curry
gurry
hurry
hurry-scurry
in a hurry
lurry
plurry
scurry
skurry
slurry
spurry

Synonyms and antonyms of blurry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «blurry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLURRY

Find out the translation of blurry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blurry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blurry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模糊
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

borrosa
570 millions of speakers

English

blurry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धुँधली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضبابية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

размыто
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

embaçada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঝাপসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

floue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kabur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verschwommen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ぼやけた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흐린
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடுமாறுவதும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्पष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bulanık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sfocata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozmyte
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розмито
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neclare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θολή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vaag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

suddig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uskarpt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blurry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLURRY»

The term «blurry» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.261 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blurry

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8 QUOTES WITH «BLURRY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blurry.
1
Bobby Clarke
I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.
2
Hank Haney
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
3
Nicole Kidman
I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
4
Damon Lindelof
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
5
Niels Arden Oplev
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.
6
Emily Procter
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
7
Monica Raymund
Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLURRY»

Discover the use of blurry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blurry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Blurry Rules Book: It's a God Thing!
The Blurry Rules Book is all about ethics. Explain THAT to a tween girl! Author Nancy Rue approaches the subject by talking about those gray areas and hard-to-answer questions that aren't so clearly addressed in the Ten Commandments.
Nancy N. Rue, 2001
2
Blurry And Disconnected
Wildly provocative, darkly humorous, and entertaining tales full of fancy talk and big words.
Dave Riley, 2006
3
Blurry
His head felt funny and his vision seemed blurry. That was odd–the beer was hitting him harder than usual. Then again, the antibiotic could amplify the effects of alcohol. Trying to shake it off, he focused on the screen. Even in his dazed state, ...
Sherri Fulmer Moorer, 2011
4
All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry
This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.
Alex James, 2012
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All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry
This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.
Alex James, 2012
6
Consciousness, Color, and Content
Also, a small child with good eye sight can see blurry things clearly. That too is nonconceptual. A threefold distinction thus emerges: seeing as blurry, seeing blurrily, and seeing clearly something blurry. Only the first of these involves a ...
Michael Tye, 2002
7
To Keep Love Blurry: Poems
Inspired by Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones as a son becomes a husband and father.
Craig Morgan Teicher, 2012
8
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
'Goodbye, Blurry, have a good trip.' And she was gone. Lonely and not at all sure of himself anymore (achangethat musthave come over him inthe night), Blurry scampered across the garden, under the hedge and on to the street. Where was  ...
Anne Frank, 2013
9
Clear Thinking in a Blurry World
This text focuses on critical thinking as it applies to philosophy and cognition, rather than the typical 'formal logic lite' approach.Clear Thinking in a Blurry World includes many practical sections that are not commonly found in books in ...
Timothy Kenyon, 2007
10
The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer: Being the Personal History ...
Any one here got a blurry lantern ? " he asked, raising one inquiring brow. No one spoke. He sighed : " No one got a blurry lantern." He dug his hands further into his pockets. " Then how the blue thunder can I find my blurry ship ? I ask you, as ...
Haldane Macfall, 1898

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLURRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blurry is used in the context of the following news items.
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Closure of schools make future blurry for 5000 students
The fate of over 5,000 school-going children in Bandarban have become uncertain after their schools – which are run under a UNDP project ... «DhakaTribune, Jul 15»
2
Ultra Street Fighter 4 PS4 Update Improves Performance
On release, the USF4 for PS4 suffered from a number of issues, including choppy menu screens and strange visual bugs like blurry textures, ... «GameSpot, Jul 15»
3
Newest Pluto photos show tiny world may be another red planet
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has just snapped another image of the dwarf planet, and, strangely some of Pluto's blurry formations give it an ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
4
Will the World Ever Tire of Kim Kardashian Nudes?
... whatever, of herself, so why the scramble to fly a helicopter over her house and get some sneaky, blurry new ones? It doesn't make sense to ... «Vanity Fair, Jul 15»
5
Girl blames herself for pit bull bite
"Everything started going grey and blurry. I don't want to go blind." But the 14 year old and Brittania Bird and her father say they aren't blaming ... «WZZM, Jul 15»
6
Travis Ishikawa hoping to 'repay' Pirates
“I can give a very good description about hitting the ball and running to first base, but after I hit first base it kind of gets blurry.” The Giants ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
7
Oh, Great. Now ISIS Says It Can Shoot Down Aircraft
The photo of the missile is blurry but could be a second-generation Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPAD) Battery Coolant Unit (BCU), ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
8
Flashback: How Mark Cuban went from beer-stained floors, flat …
Hey, at least by then he had retrieved the faux-felt brown sectional couch and blurry rear-projection TV that had been in Motley's. Instead of ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
9
First Down: Steve Smith one of several WR seniors with gas-in-tank
In the blurry-eyed portion of drafts, there may not be a more attractive option. Don't be surprised if he occasionally ventures into WR2 territory. «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
10
Burleson police seek man on improper photography charge
Burleson police issued blurry photos of a slender man in his 20s or 30s with dark hair. —Monica S. Nagy. Do you recognize this man? «Fort Worth Star Telegram, Jul 15»

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