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Unclear vs Pixilated - What's the difference?

unclear | pixilated |

As adjectives the difference between unclear and pixilated

is that unclear is ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation while pixilated is behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.

unclear

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation.
  • Not clearly or explicitly defined.
  • Not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable.

    • Derived terms

    * unclearly , rare

    Anagrams

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    pixilated

    English

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 1936-04-12 , title = , medium = Film }}
  • *:Jane Faulkner : They think he's pixilated .
  • *:Amy Faulkner : Oh, yes. Pixilated .
  • *:Board member : Perhaps I can explain, your honor. The word "pixilated " is an early American expression derived from the word "pixies", meaning elves. They would say the pixies had got him. As we nowadays would say, a man is "barmy".
  • whimsical
  • drunk
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1960 , title = Ring of Bright Water , first = Gavin , last = Maxwell , location = London , publisher = Longmans , ol = 5811721M , page = 5 , passage = The melancholy beauty of Strachur and Inveraray was for me complicated by the agonies of first love; I was well and truly pixilated , and I soaked myself in the works of Niel Munroe and Maurice Walsh... }}

    Usage notes

    *Do not confuse pixilated' with ' pixelated .