Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slur

4 senses of slur

Sense 1
slur -- (play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata")
       => play, spiel -- (replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully")

Sense 2
slur -- (speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers")
       => denote, refer -- (have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' ")

Sense 3
slur -- (utter indistinctly)
       => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")

Sense 4
blur, dim, slur -- (become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred")
       => weaken -- (become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days")
          Phrasal Verb-> slur over#1

Antonyms of adj slurred

1 sense of slurred

Sense 1
slurred, thick -- (spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred")

INDIRECT (VIA unintelligible) -> intelligible -- (well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; "intelligible pronunciation")

Similarity of adj slurred

1 sense of slurred

Sense 1
slurred, thick -- (spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred")
       => unintelligible (vs. intelligible) -- (poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech")