'obscure' definitions:
Definition of 'obscure'
From: WordNet
adjective
Not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke [syn: obscure, vague]
adjective
Marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure" [syn: dark, obscure]
adjective
Difficult to find; "hidden valleys"; "a hidden cave"; "an obscure retreat" [syn: hidden, obscure]
adjective
Not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war" [syn: obscure, unknown, unsung]
adjective
Not drawing attention; "an unnoticeable cigarette burn on the carpet"; "an obscure flaw" [syn: obscure, unnoticeable]
adjective
Remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]
verb
Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist]
verb
Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" [syn: confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate]
verb
verb
Reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
verb
Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide]
Synonyms of 'obscure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstruse,
- adiaphanous,
- adumbrate,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- ambiguous,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- amphibological,
- anarchic,
- anonymous,
- apply to,
- arcane,
- around the bush,
- back of beyond,
- baffling,
- baggy,
- bandage,
- beamless,
- beat about,
- becloud,
- beclouded,
- bedarken,
- bedazzle,
- bedim,
- befog,
- befogged,
- beg the question,
- begloom,
- belie,
- bemist,
- benight,
- beyond one,
- bicker,
- black,
- black as night,
- black out,
- blacken,
- blanket,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blind the eyes,
- blindfold,
- blobby,
- block,
- block the light,
- blot out,
- blur,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- boggle,
- broad,
- brown,
- buried,
- caliginous,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- cast a shadow,
- cavil,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- choplogic,
- Cimmerian,
- clabber up,
- clear as mud,
- cloak,
- close,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloud up,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- complex,
- complicate,
- complicated,
- conceal,
- concealed,
- confuse,
- confused,
- confusing,
- cope,
- corrupt,
- cover,
- cover up,
- covered,
- covert,
- cowl,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- cryptic,
- curtain,
- dark,
- dark as night,
- dark as pitch,
- darken,
- darken over,
- darkling,
- darksome,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deform,
- deprive of sight,
- devious,
- difficult,
- dim,
- dim out,
- disguise,
- dismal,
- disorder,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dissemble,
- distant,
- distort,
- distract attention from,
- dodge,
- double-edged,
- double-faced,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dull,
- dusk,
- dusky,
- ebon,
- ebony,
- eclipse,
- eclipsed,
- encloud,
- encompass with shadow,
- enigmatic,
- enmist,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- equivocal,
- equivocate,
- esoteric,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- excecate,
- faint,
- falsify,
- far,
- far-off,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- fence,
- film,
- filmy,
- fog,
- fog up,
- foggy,
- foreign,
- formless,
- fuliginous,
- fuzz,
- fuzzy,
- garble,
- garbled,
- general,
- glare,
- gloom,
- gloomy,
- gloss over,
- gouge,
- grumly,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- haze,
- hazy,
- hedge,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hide,
- hit-or-miss,
- hood,
- hoodwink,
- humble,
- ignotus,
- ill-defined,
- illegible,
- impervious to light,
- imprecise,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- inaccessible,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- incommunicado,
- incomprehensible,
- inconclusive,
- inconsequential,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inexplicable,
- inform,
- inglorious,
- inscrutable,
- insignificant,
- intransparent,
- intricate,
- jumble,
- jumbled,
- kaleidoscopic,
- keep from,
- keep under cover,
- knotty,
- latent,
- lax,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- little known,
- lonesome,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lowly,
- lumpen,
- make blind,
- make uncertain,
- make unintelligible,
- mantle,
- mask,
- mean,
- merely glimpsed,
- mess up,
- minor,
- misadvise,
- misdirect,
- miseducate,
- misguide,
- misinform,
- misinstruct,
- mislead,
- misrepresent,
- mist,
- misteach,
- misty,
- muddle,
- muddy,
- muffle,
- murk,
- murky,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- mystify,
- mystifying,
- nameless,
- nebulous,
- night-black,
- night-clad,
- night-cloaked,
- night-dark,
- night-enshrouded,
- night-filled,
- night-mantled,
- night-veiled,
- nitpick,
- no credit to,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- nubilate,
- nubilous,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obfuscated,
- obnubilate,
- obscured,
- obumbrate,
- occult,
- occultate,
- occulted,
- odd,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- out-of-the-way,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overlay,
- overshadow,
- oversmoke,
- overspread,
- overtechnical,
- pale,
- palter,
- parry,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- pervert,
- pick nits,
- pitch-black,
- pitch-dark,
- pitchy,
- prevaricate,
- pussyfoot,
- put on,
- puzzling,
- quibble,
- random,
- rayless,
- recondite,
- remote,
- removed,
- renownless,
- retired,
- roiled,
- roily,
- scramble,
- scrambled,
- screen,
- scum,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- semivisible,
- sequestered,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- shapeless,
- shield,
- shift,
- shroud,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- slur over,
- smog,
- smoke,
- snow-blind,
- solitary,
- somber,
- split hairs,
- spread over,
- starless,
- stochastic,
- strange,
- strike blind,
- subfusc,
- sunless,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- sweeping,
- tenebrious,
- tenebrose,
- tenebrous,
- tergiversate,
- tough,
- transcendent,
- turbid,
- umbral,
- uncelebrated,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under wraps,
- underground,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undistinguished,
- unemphatic,
- unfamed,
- unfamiliar,
- unfathomable,
- unform,
- unglorified,
- unheard-of,
- unhonored,
- unilluminated,
- unimportant,
- unintelligible,
- unknown,
- unlighted,
- unlit,
- unnamed,
- unnotable,
- unnoted,
- unnoticeable,
- unnoticed,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unpopular,
- unrecognizable,
- unremarked,
- unrenowned,
- unshape,
- unspecified,
- unsung,
- vague,
- varnish,
- veil,
- veiled,
- weak,
- whitewash,
- wrapped in clouds