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🌫️ A light mist 😶‍🌫️ A vague feeling
brume

brume

9.9
A state of unclear thought that makes things hard to understand
  • noun
  • /bruːm/
  • Archaic
translation icon : bruma
  • After the shocking news, a brume of confusion settled over the entire office.

Examples

  • His memories of childhood were shrouded in a brume that made details hard to recall.

  • The novel's ending left readers in a brume of uncertainty and speculation.

  • The brume of uncertainty hung over the meeting.

  • In the brume, the truth seemed elusive.

  • After the shocking news, a brume of confusion settled over the entire office.

  • His memories of childhood were shrouded in a brume that made details hard to recall.

  • The novel's ending left readers in a brume of uncertainty and speculation.

Synonyms

haze
vsbrume
16 6.2

A state of confusion when your thoughts feel unclear

is more literary and adds a gloomy obscuring of perception
obscureness
vsbrume
7.9

Darkness or low light that makes things hard to see

is figurative, focusing on vague gloom that clouds understanding

Antonyms

certainty
  • Literature
202 3.4

A strong feeling that something is true or will happen

clarity
152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

How Obscure

impenetrable
14 8.3
brume
  • Archaic
9.9
foggy
18 3.4
vague
230 4.6
clear
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

brume singular
brumes plural

Etymology

Brume is also used in a figurative way and comes from the same French brume 'mist'; just as fog hides a view, a 'brume' can hide clear thought, so it means 'confusion' or 'vagueness'.