smeary
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈsmɪəri/
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manchado
- After the storm, the windows were smeary with rainwater, making it hard to see outside.
- smeary eyes
But when it comes to displaying anything that's not black and white and, well, I just can't believe how smeary the ball is.
- But when it comes to displaying anything that's not black and white and, well, I just can't believe how smeary the ball is.
Examples
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Everything was smeary, like a lens coated with vaseline.
Fiction book (1990) -
The artist used a wet brush to create a smeary effect on the canvas.
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You like the smeary ink.
Blog text (9) -
- Look at all that smeary lipstick.
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They stood on top of closed toilet seats and looked at themselves in the smeary mirror.
Fiction book (1993) -
Star turns toward the windows, blinking in the afternoon sun refracted through smeary glass.
Fiction book (1993) -
Deloyd looked out at the afternoon, damp and not quite warm, the blue sky wan and smeary.
Fiction book (1997) -
I ran my finger along the counter, leaving a smeary track through the ringed imprints of glasses.
Fiction book (1997) -
After he had watched alone by the smeary window in the frosty station for a long time, Aunt Irene arrived in the sisters' old spinach-colored Dodge with the running boards.
Fiction book (1993) -
He and Liberty thought that Charly and Molly seemed almost appealingly vulnerable despite their dagger-like nails and smeary noses.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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3.6
Looks unclear, so you cannot see details
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4.4
Having thin lines and uneven patches of different color or texture, like marks on bacon and skin
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1.4
Not clear or easy to remember
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5.6
A surface with uneven patches or spots
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4.1
Having soft dirty marks that make a surface look blurred
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5.6
Covered in black soot or dirt
Antonyms
How Smudged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Smeary comes from smear ('to rub' or 'to spread') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of', so it describes something covered with smears or looking blurred and dirty.