FUZZY (fuzzier, fuzziest)

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Irregular inflected forms: fuzzier    , fuzziest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fuzzy mean? 

• FUZZY (adjective)
  The adjective FUZZY has 3 senses:

1. covering with fine light hairs

2. indistinct or hazy in outline

3. confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out

  Familiarity information: FUZZY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUZZY (adjective)

Comparative: fuzzier   
Superlative: fuzziest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covering with fine light hairs

Synonyms:

fuzzed; fuzzy

Context example:

his head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed

Similar:

haired; hairy; hirsute (having or covered with hair)

Derivation:

fuzz (the first beard of an adolescent boy)

Sense 2

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)

Derivation:

fuzziness (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out

Context example:

a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance

Similar:

incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)

 Context examples 

The heat from the Sun causes some of the dirty snow to vaporize, creating the fuzzy halo or "coma" of water vapor, dust and ice grains seen in comet images.

(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)

Fuzzy little black-velvet monkeys, with snow-white teeth and gleaming, mocking eyes, chattered at us as we passed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disorder characterized by visual perception of unclear or fuzzy images.

(Blurred Vision, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The broken coat is a cross of rough and smooth coat - long body hair, a slightly fuzzy face and a smooth head.

(Jack Russell Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited it in 2015, the largest of the dwarf planets had appeared as little more than a fuzzy blob, even to the keen-eyed Hubble Space Telescope.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

At those small scales, according to University of Utah chemist and study co-author Valeria Molinero, the transition between ice and water gets a little fuzzy.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

Surprisingly, the front has remained extremely sharp over the eons, rather than becoming fuzzy or diffuse.

(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)

C/2019 Q4 was established as being cometary due to its fuzzy appearance, which indicates that the object has a central icy body that is producing a surrounding cloud of dust and particles as it approaches the Sun and heats up.

(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)

There was a pleasing inequality in the table, which produced many mishaps to cups and plates, acorns dropped in the milk, little black ants partook of the refreshments without being invited, and fuzzy caterpillars swung down from the tree to see what was going on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)