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obscure
adjective as in not easily understood
Strongest matches
ambiguous, arcane, complicated, confusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, vague
Weak matches
abstruse, clear as mud, dark, deep, doubtful, enigmatical, far-out, hazy, illegible, illogical, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, intricate, opaque, recondite, unaccountable, unbelievable, unclear, undefined, unfathomable, unintelligible
adjective as in cloudy, shadowy
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caliginous, dark, dense, dusky, fuliginous, gloomy, indistinct, lightless, shady, somber, tenebrous, umbrageous, unilluminated, unlit
adjective as in out-of-the-way, little-known
Strongest matches
arcane, cryptic, distant, enigmatic, esoteric, humble, inaccessible, irrelevant, minor, mysterious, odd, rare, remote, secluded, secretive, undisclosed, undistinguished, unknown
Weak matches
abstruse, cabalistic, dark, deep, devious, far, far-off, inconspicuous, inglorious, invisible, lonesome, lowly, nameless, oracular, orphic, recondite, reticent, secret, seldom seen, solitary, unheard-of, unhonored, unimportant, unnoted, unseen, unsung
verb as in conceal, hide
Strongest matches
belie, blind, block out, blur, camouflage, cloud, confuse, cover, cover up, darken, dim, disguise, eclipse, mask, misrepresent, muddy, overshadow, shroud, veil
Strong matches
adumbrate, becloud, bedim, befog, blear, block, cloak, con, equivocate, falsify, fog, gray, haze, mist, murk, obfuscate, overcast, overcloud, pettifog, screen, shade, shadow, stonewall, wrap
Weak matches
cloud the issue, double-talk, fuzz, gloom, muddy the waters, throw up smoke screen
Example Sentences
Rights group Amnesty International raised concerns that the inclusion of Suharto on the list would obscure Indonesia's history.
But the sheer scale of investment has obscured how it is already reshaping America, in the form of windowless buildings the size of multiple football fields where businesses store and process information.
Equally obscure for many is just how central that role was—a crucial factor of one of the biggest economic takeoffs in history.
But not all meme stocks were similarly obscure before having their day.
This is noticeable in Europe, where the media attention to the rise of insurgent parties on the right tends to obscure the simultaneous surge in popularity for the left.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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