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obscure
Synonyms and Antonyms of obscure
- a fantasy writer who likes to put lots of obscure references and images in her tales of wizards and warlocks
ambiguous, arcane, cryptic, dark, deep, elliptical (or elliptic), enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, inscrutable, murky, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, occult, opaque
cloaked, concealed, disguised, masked, shrouded
cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinguishable, misty, muddy, shaded, shadowlike, shadowy, sphinxlike
indefinite, inexact, inexplicit, noncommittal, questionable, unclear, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, vague
impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable
eerie (also eery), uncanny, weird
baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, unfathomable
- He's an obscure artist now, but he's sure to be famous someday.
- hid in an obscure spot among the trees
ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling
floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit)
- a distinction so obscure that only the experts can really see it
Synonym Discussion of obscure
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- obscure poems
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- muttered dark hints of revenge
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- a vague sense of obligation
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- enigmatic occult writings
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- cryptic hints of hidden treasure
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- an ambiguous directive
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- moral precepts with equivocal phrasing
obscure
Synonyms and Antonyms of obscure
- The investigative reporters obscured their real motives for visiting the company by pretending the story was about something else.
bury, camouflage, cover (up), smother
gild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewash
becloud, bedim, befog, block, cloud, darken, eclipse, obstruct, occlude, overcast, overshadow, shade
- When it isn't obscured by smog, the view of the city from the observatory can be spectacular.
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