obscure
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8.2
- adjective
- /əbˈskjʊr/
:
oscuro
- The reference here is very obscure.
- meaning remains obscure
- obscure words
- remain obscure
If God does not exist, I am God, which remains rather obscure.
- If God does not exist, I am God, which remains rather obscure.
- Chronology of purposes, not so clear but maybe not too obscure.
- And you know, and then the answers are kind of obscure.
- This selectivity breaks the common illusion of progress while elaborating otherwise more obscure continuities.
- And, and often it's quite obscure, but I try to kind of disentangle that.
- They tell you about things that are clear, external speech and other things that are much more obscure and hard to pin down.
- And I think, you know, the one answer that I gave this is like, obscure because I wanted to go off the path here.
- The Cuban diplomats, the reporting is rather obscure, but so your guess is as good as mine.
- The depths becomes obscure to you when you look at everything through continental concepts.
- It's always there, some obscure sense of lack, and often it comes into the foreground as real unhappiness, frustration.
Examples
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The professor's lecture was filled with obscure theories that few could grasp.
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You read some obscure passage.
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No, this is a bit more obscure than that.
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Was I being too obscure ?
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"Why is it I feel you are being deliberately obscure?" he asked.
Fiction book (1990) -
I find that many papers are obscure and I simply don't understand them.
Academic text (1991) -
Only please, try not to be quite as obscure as the originals.
Fiction book (1990) -
Pausanias's text, it must be admitted, was obscure at the time.
Academic text (2012) -
Van Helsing knows more about obscure diseases than any man in the world.
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And now this moment was reviving a familiar but obscure sense of openness to life.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
498
5.1
Hard to understand or explain because it seems strange
276
3.2
Hard to understand and makes people feel unsure
230
4.6
Not clear or detailed so you are unsure what is meant
207
3.9
Not easy to understand or know for sure
52
7.0
Hard to understand or describe, like the meaning of a symbol
46
8.8
Difficult or impossible to understand
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8.1
Hard to understand because it seems secret or mysterious
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7.9
Hard to understand because it is unclear or complicated
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8.1
Hard to understand and often seems mysterious
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9.7
Only a small group of experts understand it
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8.9
Hard to understand because it shows no clear meaning or feeling
8
8.8
Too hard to read or understand
4
7.7
Hidden and hard to understand because it is secret
3
9.9
Hard to understand because it is very complex
1
8.2
Not possible to understand or explain
1
9.3
Hard to understand, like a puzzle
1
9.9
A subject that only a few people understand because it is hard to follow
Hard to understand because it has a hidden meaning
Difficult to understand
Hard to understand because it is mysterious and unclear
Antonyms
How Obscure
Surface Forms
Etymology
Obscure comes from the Latin word obscurus, meaning 'dark' or 'hidden', and so it pictures meaning that is in the dark and hard to see. That's why we call a sentence or idea 'obscure' when it is difficult to understand.