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What is "unfocused"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfocused
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ So far the protest movement has been unorganized and unfocused.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At this stage, the urge to do something was unfocused, but it was extraordinary how people threw themselves into it.
▪ Dull, unfocused eyes indicate pain or illness.
▪ If it starts wrong, or proceeds in an unfocused way, it ends wrong.
▪ She saw less and less of Ben, and missed him in a slightly sad, unfocused kind of way.
▪ The film's disappointing performance was laid at its documentary style and unfocused lack of drama.
▪ The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens.
▪ There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.
▪ When he subsided after five minutes, he'd lie with his eyes wide open but unfocused, weeping.
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unfocused

a. Not focused

WordNet
unfocused

  1. adj. (of an image) not in or brought into focus; "at their edges things were pretty much out of focus" [syn: unfocussed, out of focus] [ant: focused]

  2. not concentrated at one point or upon one objective; "diversity...in our huge unfocused country"- Owen Wister [syn: unfocussed]

Usage examples of "unfocused".

Simpson again favored Andi with an unfocused gaze and self-satisfied smile.

Yet she could not believe he was really one of the unfocused pitiful human beings who could never learn any biocontrol at all.

His unfocused gaze instinctively searched the prairie for hidden danger in the clumps of spiny mesquite and catclaw shrubs.

He opened his eyes as I dropped to my knees beside him, and gave me an unfocused smile.

Now the strange unfocused eyes took on a different aspect, and I decided I was looking at a man who had found the world not to his liking and stepped outside it - like Pea-Head Chou in my village, who joined the roosters every morning and commanded the sun to rise.

Vassago muttered, and knew somehow that William Cooper was the object of the unfocused anger that had overcome him when he was with his collection in the funhouse, and which later seemed to link him with the man he had seen in the mirror.

But the drug had him parsecs from true sleep, so he simply lay there, an unfocused void.

The dying man drew in a deep breath, and his unfocused eyes suddenly became alert.

With each blink, that cloudy, unfocused look disappeared from her eyes, to be replaced with a brisk air of utter competence.

Her eyes were dazed and unfocused, and her breath was coming in tiny fast gasps.

Nikko glared at him, his blue eyes seeming weirdly unfocused behind their crystal lenses.

He choked, peering with unfocused eyes, trying to identify the man who had emerged from the creaking, moving shadows.

She did not reply at once, sitting for a moment slumped in the chair, her eyes unfocused, then she looked at him.

He sounded bewildered and unfocused, and had the querulous voice of a much younger boy.

Her eyes seemed a little unfocused, as if entranced by some inner vision.