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unfocussed

a. (alternative spelling of unfocused English)

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

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

Usage examples of "unfocussed".

What first fastened my attention was this vague, unfocussed, roving, quasi-introspective vision flashing with panther-like suddenness into a directness that seemed to burn and pierce one like the thrust of a hot stiletto, His face was clean-shaven, save for a mere thumb-mark of black hair directly under the centre of his lower lip.

B C, and that blurred and distorted by the unfocussed lenses of an untrained mind.

There was a vague, unfocussed hatred in her eyes, a suspicion of age, of gender, of everyone and everything.

But here he lost the thread of this simple exercise in conversation, and his unfocussed eyes drifted up to study a lizard on the ceiling as he sought to regain his topic.

She knelt there for a long time, in a sober, listening stillness, while strange, soft, and unfocussed visions moved in her mind, indefinite, even meaningless, yet filling her with a calm and a peace that she had never known, and was never entirely to lose.

Her eyes were open, and unfocussed, and Richard knew, somehow, that they saw nothing at all.

I watched with a parched mouth while he put a steel probe into the keyhole and concentrated on feeling his way through the tumblers, his eyes unfocussed and unseeing, all the consciousness in his fingers.

His face began to blur as if seen through an unfocussed telescope, and his hands became indistinct beside his body.

I felt overcome by all those faces and then I saw only the unfocussed white of the cloth over my eyes.

He was a handsome youth, but I thought he might have been more handsome had it not been for the vacant, unfocussed look in his big, dark eyes.