blear

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Dim; unclear from water or rheum.
2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight.

Verb

1. To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
2. To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.
3. To blur, make blurry.

Concepts

masquer

😷

trouble

embrumer

s’assombrir

Synonymes

bleary

muddy

turbid

hazy

cloudy

☁️

blur

haggard

blurred

shadowy

bleary-eyed

thick

cloud

☁️

vague

dim

dull

blear-eyed

blurry

fuzzy

gaunt

obscure

opaque

indistinct

inexplicit

lackluster

lacklustre

mist over

misty

muddied

murky

puddle

roil

roily

splashy

tarnish

twilight

woozy

opacify

mirky

crepuscle

abstruse

nebulose

ambiguous

barren

becloud

befog

bleariness

cover

crepuscule

cryptic

dark

darkness

dazzle

desolate

dusk

elusive

faint

fall

gloomy

haze

hazily

indeterminate

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/blɪə(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English blere, related to Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”), Middle High German blerre (“double vision”), German Blerre (“double vision”). Perhaps also related to blur.