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# blurry

«blurry» in Mova's school dictionary: **not clear or sharp, with fuzzy edges, so it is hard to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (blurry, blurrier, blurriest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Blurry means not clear or sharp, with fuzzy edges, so it is hard to see the details: a blurry photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#m1)

2) Blurry memory means you cannot remember clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: a photo is blurry when the camera or the subject moves; things look blurry without glasses if you are short- or long-sighted; eyes go blurry after swimming or crying. In safety and health: if your eyesight suddenly goes blurry, or after hitting your head, tell an adult at once — it can be a sign that you need a doctor. In science, lenses focus light; out-of-focus images are blurry. Phrases: blurry vision, blurry photo, go blurry, blurry around the edges.

### examples

- The photo is blurry because I moved the camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#x1)
- Without my glasses, the board looks blurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#x2)
- My eyes were blurry after swimming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#x3)
- If your vision goes blurry after a bump on the head, tell a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#x4)
- Turn the knob on the microscope until the cells stop being blurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#x5)
- My memory of being a baby is very blurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/#x6)

### note

Adjective: blurrier, blurriest (y changes to i). From «blur» (noun and verb). Similar: fuzzy, out of focus, hazy. Opposite: sharp, clear, in focus.

### In the corpora

- [Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/15/)
- [But the lines kept getting blurry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/4/)
- [Zara in Johannesburg met a famous footballer at the airport and showed a blurry photo of a tall man's back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/8/)
- [A blurry or faraway photo is not real proof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blurry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blurry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.