BLURRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blurred mean? 

• BLURRED (adjective)
  The adjective BLURRED has 2 senses:

1. indistinct or hazy in outline

2. unclear in form or expression

  Familiarity information: BLURRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLURRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indistinct or hazy in outline

Synonyms:

bleary; blurred; blurry; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; muzzy

Context example:

the trees were just blurry shapes

Similar:

indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unclear in form or expression

Synonyms:

blurred; clouded

Context example:

sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded

Similar:

unclear (not clear to the mind)

 Context examples 

I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When signs and symptoms occur, they include blurred vision, visual field loss, floaters, and ocular pain.

(Choroid Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include heart palpitations, sweating, anxiety, lightheadedness, hyperpnea, anxiety, and blurred vision.

(Orthostatic Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with blurred vision, visual field loss, floaters, and ocular pain.

(Ciliary Body Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include blurred, cloudy, or double vision; sensitivity to light; and difficulty seeing at night.

(Cataract, NCI Dictionary)

In the distance, detail was veiled and blurred by a purple haze, but behind this purple haze, he knew, was the glamour of the unknown, the lure of romance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The wrack had thickened to seaward, and the coast was but a blurred line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were, as he had said, marks upon the bed, but they were hopelessly blurred and vague.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was thickly coated with soot from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The occupants had evidently retired to rest, for all was dark save for a fanlight over the hall door, which shed a single blurred circle on to the garden path.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)