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fuzzy Definition

fuzzy (fuzē)

adjective fuzzier fuzz′i·er, fuzziest fuzz′i·est

  1. of, like, or covered with fuzz
  2. not clear, distinct, or precise; blurred fuzzy thinking, a fuzzy sound

Etymology: prob. < LowG fussig, fibrous, spongy, akin to Du voos, spongy < IE *pus- < base *pu-, to rot > foul

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fuzzy Synonyms

fuzzy

modif.

  1. Like or covered with fuzz

    hairy, woolly, furry; see downy.

  2. Not clear

    blurred, indistinct, indefinite, out of focus, shadowy, dim, misty, hazy, foggy; see also hazy 1, obscure 1.

fuzzy Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: Due to copyright issues, some sound files are slightly fuzzy.
  • somewhat: Black / white text is less good, somewhat fuzzy.
  • rather: You can see a couple of rather fuzzy photographs of them here.
  • little: Over the last 850 years the history of them is a little fuzzy!
  • quite: Any definition of " literature " is ultimately quite fuzzy.
  • too: Without the shadow, it looks jagged, and with the shadow, its too fuzzy.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • look: A 300 DPI printer makes text look a little bit fuzzy.

Modifies a noun

  • logic: They use fuzzy logic to compute distances between features.
  • Statehood: Those two fieldtrips were also part of the " Fuzzy Statehood " project.
  • blob: Suddenly a fuzzy black blob appeared under the rear of our motorhome.
  • matching: In addition fuzzy matching allows a more intuitive access to data supporting the specification of what data is needed.
  • inference: Fuzzy inference will result in confidence factors ( MV's ) assigned to each outcome in the rule base.
  • thinking: Often some fuzzy lateral thinking can be a better approach.

Used with adjective complement

  • appear: Talking about pictures, an e-mail, which is otherwise complimentary, comments upon the photographs saying that they appear fuzzy at times.
  • become: You see, I think the mission has somewhat become fuzzy.
  • go: I feel uncomfortable and my vision goes fuzzy fairly quickly.
  • look: The previous recording now looked distinctly fuzzy compared with the lovely crisp images from the Elmo.
  • get: Where we do get fuzzy is with damage to living things, particularly people.
  • use: This evaluation, which measures the quality of fuzzy clustering, assigns a real number to the outputs of the used fuzzy clustering algorithm.

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