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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈfʌzi/
• (Northern England) IPA: /ˈfʊzi/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈfʌze/, /-zɪ/, /-zi/
• 韻: -ʌzi

形容詞

fuzzy (comparative fuzzier, superlative fuzziest)

1. Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.
2. Vague or imprecise.

   Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal; see also Thesaurus:vague

   My recollection of that event is fuzzy.

   • 2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85:

     In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.

   • 2017 November 3, Rochelle Sharpe, “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking”, in The New York Times‎:

     Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student.

3. Not clear; unfocused.

   Synonyms: blurry, ill-defined; see also Thesaurus:indistinct

   I finally threw out a large stack of fuzzy photos.

4. Warm and comforting; affectionate.
   • 1996, Kath Filmer-Davies, “Belonging and the Right of Possession”, in Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth, →ISBN, page 110:

     Cooper has a strong sense of Welsh place; she has also a strong sense of the responsibilities of belonging. To belong is not merely a nice, fuzzy feeling; rather it means that there are grave duties to perform and serious moral battles to be fought […] .

   • 2025, Kit Meredith, An Extraordinary Passion, →ISBN:

     It had been a long time since anyone had sent her a gift, […] . And it was a long time since anything she'd received from someone had made her feel that fuzzy inside.

5. (computing theory) Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.

派生語

名詞

fuzzy (plural fuzzies)

1. (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material such as lint.

   You've got a fuzzy on your coat.

2. Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.
   • 2000, Kim Schilling, Ferrets for Dummies, New York: Wiley, →ISBN, page 1:

     If you don't yet have a ferret, this book can help you decide whether a fuzzy is for you.

3. (slang) A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.
   • 2010, Donald Barr, Questioning the Premedical Paradigm […] , Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     A "fuzzy" on the other hand is a "people person," — someone who prefers studying the humanities or social sciences, someone who sees the world in broad contextual terms.

   • 2017, Scott Hartley, The Fuzzy and the Techie […] ‎, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

     If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy, and if you majored in engineering or computer science, you were a techie.

4. (slang, military) A soldier with the rank of private.
5. (slang) A police officer.

参照

• fuzzy, adj. James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Fuzzy”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• “fuzzy n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.
• fuzzy. Frederick C. Mish (Editor in Chief), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Merriam-Webster, 1994. →OCLC
• “fuzzy”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.