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Blear vs Blurry - What's the difference?

blear | blurry |

As adjectives the difference between blear and blurry

is that blear is (of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum while blurry is (of an image) not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.

As a verb blear

is to make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

blear

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
  • * 1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 74:
    • The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren's left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
  • Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
  • * Milton
    • Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.

    See also

    * bleary

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

    • Anagrams

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    blurry

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
    • If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry .
  • (figuratively) not clear, not with well-defined boundaries.
    • It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harrassment has become quite blurry.

    Derived terms

    * blurriness