obscure
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7.0
- adjective
- /əbˈskjʊr/
:
poco conocido
- Some are widely known, others are rather obscure.
- remain obscure
- relatively obscure
- an obscure journal
Julian, come on, give us some obscure Japanese pop rock band.
- Julian, come on, give us some obscure Japanese pop rock band.
- Like this is such an obscure thing to even do.
- But we're here today, Adam, to talk obscure endurance sports.
- I remember he had a very obscure little joke.
- Like a good two hour read about some obscure subject.
- And don't pick an Airbnb that's in an obscure part of the city.
- It was, it was it was really an obscure disease.
- Then a judge stepped in and put it to a halt, citing an obscure law called the Constitution.
- And this one is certainly an obscure vehicle that is interesting to check out.
- We're talking RAID cards, high end Nic cards, PCI E storage cards, and even much more obscure stuff than that.
- And it can help us, you know, really more quickly get good people to sort of review obscure entries and things like that.
- And a lot of this, the thinking on this too, it's rooted on kind of an obscure literature on the economics of violence or force.
Examples
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It's a wonderful, relatively obscure Victorian novel.
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Many of the surviving manuscripts detailing their combative systems remained largely obscure for centuries, until now.
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Like a good two hour read about some obscure subject.
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And this one is certainly an obscure vehicle that is interesting to check out.
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I come from a small, obscure country, and my group is a small, obscure group.
Fiction book (1996) -
During conferences, they treated my height as though it were an obscure area of scholarship.
Fiction book (1990) -
The bishops have come up trumps and ferreted out some obscure trust set up years ago.
Fiction book (1990) -
The museum featured an obscure artist whose work was rarely seen in galleries.
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Many hikers seek out obscure trails in the mountains that most tourists overlook.
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He published a novel that became famous, but it took years to find a publisher for his obscure manuscript.
Synonyms
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2.3
Not known or named, often with no name given
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4.4
Not known or seen before
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3.8
Far from other places or people and hard to reach
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7.3
Few people know about it
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9.8
Only a few people understand it
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4.0
Not yet found or known by people
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6.3
A person who does important work without praise or credit
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6.9
Not easy to see or notice
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7.0
Not praised or noticed by the public
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4.6
Hard to see or notice
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7.8
Hard to notice or understand at first
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6.3
Not receiving much public attention or media coverage
Seen or talked about by only a few people
Not well known to many people
Seen by only a few people
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Obscure comes from the Latin word obscurus, meaning 'dark' or 'hidden', and this gives a simple image: a town or person 'in the dark' about the public, unknown to most people. That's why we say someone or something is 'obscure' when it is not well known.