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bleared

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Bleared means having a blurred or dim appearance, often used to describe eyes that are watery or unfocused.

Detailed Definition
The term 'bleared' is often used in literature to evoke a sense of weariness or age, particularly in relation to vision. In this poem, it describes the Year as growing old, suggesting a fading vitality and clarity, which enhances the themes of mortality and the passage of time.
Example
Example in poetry:
“His eye is pale and bleared” presents sight clouded by age, illness, or grief; “Bleared eyes watched the winter platform empty” gives a contemporary image of exhaustion; In Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner,” the glittering eye exerts hypnotic power, a useful contrast to bleared vision; The archaic adjective often creates a Gothic or elegiac tone
Additional Notes
The word 'bleared' is used to depict the old Year’s dimming vision, emphasizing its age and decline.; Found in the poem, Midnight Mass for a Dying Year by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Also Known As
dimmed blurred obscured tearful
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