nontransparent

Examples

• All

• She pushed a few buttons on the pad, and heavy, nontransparent shields slowly slid down to cover all but one of the windows.

  Blog text (6)

• Both tycoons won shares or frequencies from the state in nontransparent deals and relied on large loans from state sources for operating expenses.

  Academic text (2002)

• Further, these regulations are subject to unpredictable change after a nontransparent government review.

  Academic text (1997)

• Frequently, such centers facilitate those aims in nontransparent and therefore coercive ways, which the government funds.

  Academic text (2017)

• As Witten puts it, the hologram captures all the information but in a nontransparent way:

  Academic text (1998)

• Conclusion: Animation enhances transparency and name agreement, especially for verbs, which reduces the instructional burden that comes with nontransparent symbols.

  Academic text (2012)

• We were suspected of lascivious behavior as a matter of fact: the campus dress code was rigid and demanded that we not wear shorts more than one inch above the knee, and then only under a nontransparent raincoat, and only for essential sporting events.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Ivorian government's preferred modalities reflected their private sector-led, nontransparent Mini-Strategy; the strategy, in turn, reflected the structural and institutional realities of the country.

  Academic text (1993)

• But as of this writing, these public expressions look like a mood, not a movement: they are disconnected and lack organization, a leader, or a plan—not enough to challenge the existing pattern of governance of nontransparent decision-making confined to a limited group at the top of the executive branch.

  Academic text (2010)

• Many voters are frustrated by the nontransparent process used to select candidates for the committee.

Synonyms

U

untransparent

vsnontransparent

1 7.6

Not open or honest about important facts

also covers physical light blocking and general unclear motives

N

nonobvious

vsnontransparent

1 7.4

Not easy to see or understand without careful thinking

also implies blocking light or deliberate secrecy beyond mere difficulty

I

intransparent

vsnontransparent

8.0

Not open or honest about information and decisions

also includes physical opacity and a general lack of honesty

N

nonlucid

vsnontransparent

8.5

Difficult to understand

can also mean opaque in a physical or moral sense

Antonyms

T

transparent

68 4.1

A person or process that is open and honest and does not hide information

How Transparent

crystal clear

• Informal

43 2.5

transparent

54 3.2

nontransparent

7.8

opaque

14 8.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology