slurredadj.
/sləːd/ Run together, rendered indistinct, blurred, etc.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > inarticulate indistinct > of speech
thicka1398
clipped1483
unlanguaged1677
slurred1746
slithering1840
slurring1848
mushmouth1902
mushmouthed1909
slurry1937
side-of-the-mouth1939
society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > tied or slurred
ligable1597
bounden1609
slurred1746
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct
dimc1000
blinda1398
undistingued1398
obscure?a1450
undistinct1495
shadowed1588
undistinguishable1600
shady1626
blear1637
filmed1637
indistinguishable1642
crepusculous1646
adumbrated1650
oblite1650
faint1660
monogrammous1678
blurred1701
faintish1712
wispya1717
adumbrant1727
muzzy1744
indistinct1764
fuzzy1778
misty1797
shadowy1797
undistinguished1814
woolly1815
vague1822
furzy1825
mystified1833
slurred1843
feeble1860
smudginga1861
filmy1864
smudgy1865
blurry1884
slurry1937
1746 W. Tans'ur New Musical Gram. 99 Ty'd or slur'd Notes.
1827 J. Tate in J. W. Donaldson Buckham's Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) ii. iii. 446 It may justify our adoption of slurred Anapest and slurred Dactyl, as terms not inappropriate for that purpose.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 277 It is quite a mistake to suppose that slurred or melting lines are characteristic of distant large objects.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 5 They are faded and gone—pieces of slurred paper, nothing more.
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adj.1746