fuzzy

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Grain is equally all pervasive and can vary wildly between pretty defined to thick and fuzzy, which is something a more meticulous restoration could have seriously improved.

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  1. adjective Covered with fuzz.
  2. adjective Of or resembling fuzz.
  3. adjective Not clear; indistinct: a fuzzy recollection of past events.

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  • Grain is equally all pervasive and can vary wildly between pretty defined to thick and fuzzy, which is something a more meticulous restoration could have seriously improved. —  DVD Times
  • Hard to keep track of all these departing Warriors and their ever-fuzzy, always elongated return dates. —  Kawakami
  • We combine well-known techniques from the areas of error-correcting codes and cryptography to achieve a new type of cryptographic primitive that we refer to as a fuzzy commitment scheme. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Both men erred on the side of "I created it" when their memories were probably fuzzy, which is human nature, I suppose. —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • I think Wolfram would agree that it is probably never going to be able to give relationship or career advice, for example, because that is "fuzzy" -- there is often no single right answer to such questions. —  doggdot.us
 

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hazy ·  furry ·  fluffy ·  woolly ·  indistinct ·  reddish ·  downy ·  silvery ·  blurry ·  dim ·  shapeless ·  shiny

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fuzzy:   fuzzier
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Perhaps from Low German fussig, spongy; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Of dial. origin, the same as or mixed with fozy, q. v. Cf. Low German fussig, loose, light, fibrous.
 

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/ˈfəzi/
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