unsharp

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unsharp

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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”).

adjective more unsharp · most unsharp

Out of focus; blurry.
Dulled or intentionally blunt. an unsharp tool

Similar: nonsharp · Opposite: sharp, crisp

verb unsharps · unsharping · unsharped

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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Similar: nonsharp · Opposite: sharp, crisp

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@misc{unsharp_2026,
  title = {unsharp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unsharp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}