Dictionary Entry
slur
slur is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- 2transitive verb
To disparage; to traduce.
- 3transitive verb
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- 4transitive verb
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- 5transitive verb
To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
- 6transitive verb
To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
- 7transitive verb
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
- 8noun
A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
- 9noun
A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
- 10noun
A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
- 11noun
In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- 12noun
a blemish made by dirt
"he had a smudge on his cheek"
- 13noun
a disparaging remark
"in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"
"it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"
Synonyms
- 14noun
(music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- 15verb
become vague or indistinct
"The distinction between the two theories blurred"
- 16verb
utter indistinctly
- 17verb
speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
"your comments are slurring your co-workers"
- 18verb
play smoothly or legato
"the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"
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