pixelated
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- adjective
- /ˈpɪksəˌleɪtɪd/
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pixelado
- It's so pixelated and it's stretched out on the sides.
- pixelated image
It's just one little tiny display pixelated in orange and black.
- It's just one little tiny display pixelated in orange and black.
- Zoom back a little bit Now that pixelated again.
- And so therefore it was not perceived to be pixelated.
Examples
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The image looked blurry and pixelated because of its low resolution.
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Where I used to be able to zoom in on my house and see the cars in the driveway, now I am presented with a pixelated blob of a cloud!
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See how less pixelated this one is.
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Photos look pixelated and not nearly as good as what The Daily offers.
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It's just one little tiny display pixelated in orange and black.
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However, the application icon has become pixelated and low resolution since the update to 4.2.
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Close-ups on mouths and eyes, tight and pixelated.
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The pentile displays on most of the droids are so pixelated that they are painful to read at any size.
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However, when some of the issues feature really crisp text and photos, and other issues feature pixelated text and blurry photos, the reading experience can be jarring.
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Since 1978, fans around the globe have been blasting away at the pixelated aliens of Taito's Space Invaders and its numerous sequels and remakes.
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Synonyms
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4.6
Showing pictures with few details that look blocky
Antonyms
How Pixelated
Surface Forms
Morphology
pixelated = pixelate (transparent) = pixel + ate + ed
Formed from 'pixel' -> 'pixelate' -> 'pixelated' by regular derivational suffixes, so learners who know 'pixel' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pixelated comes from pixel, a short form of the phrase picture element meaning 'a tiny square of an image'. When a picture has low quality or is made much larger than it should be, you can see those squares and the image looks blocky and loses detail.