unsharp

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Scrabble points: 12
Words With Friends: 14
Letters: 7

Definition of unsharp

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

Not sharp.

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adj

Not sharp.
Not sharp.

“an unsharp tool”

verb

(transitive)To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.

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Etymology

From Middle English *unscharp, from Old English unsċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *unskarp, from Proto-Germanic *unskarpaz, equivalent to un- + sharp. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunskäärp (“unsharp”), West Frisian ûnskerp (“unsharp”), Dutch onscherp (“unsharp”), German Low German unscharp (“unsharp”), German unscharf (“unsharp”), Danish uskarp (“unsharp”), Swedish oskarp (“unsharp”), Norwegian uskarp (“unsharp”).

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2-letter words

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