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bleary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bleary has 2 senses
- bleary(s = adj.all) blear, blear-eyed, bleary-eyed - tired to the point of exhaustion; Array
- bleary(s = adj.all) blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy - indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bleary, adj. (blearier, bleariest)
1 (of the eyes or mind) dim; blurred.
2 indistinct.
1 (of the eyes or mind) dim; blurred.
2 indistinct.
Idiom
bleary-eyed having dim sight or wits.
Derivative
blearily adv. bleariness n.
THESAURUS
bleary
all in, blear, bleared, blurred, blurry, confused, dark, depleted, dim, drained, exhausted, faint, far-gone, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, obscure, out of focus, pale, semivisible, shadowy, spent, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unplain, unrecognizable, used up, vague, washed-out, weak, worn-out
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