blur

1. 1.

   a hazy or indistinct representation

   “it happened so fast it was just a blur”

   “he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz”

   Synonymsfuzz

   Broaderrepresentation

Other forms of blur

plural

blurs·

past tense or participle

blurred

present participle

blurring

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blur

What does blur mean?

blur means "become glassy; lose clear vision". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blur?

blur has 1 syllable: blur. In IPA it is /ˈblɝ/.

What is another word for blur?

Close synonyms include film over, glaze over, confuse, obscure, obnubilate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of blur?

The recorded antonyms are focus, focus, focus.

Is blur a common word?

blur is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.