obscures

VERB

conceal, hide

Synonyms

STRONGEST

belie blind block out blur camouflage cloud confuse cover cover up darken dim disguise eclipse mask misrepresent muddy overshadow shroud veil

STRONG

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

cloud the issue double-talk fuzz gloom muddy the waters throw up smoke screen

Antonyms

STRONGEST

brighten clarify clear clear up explain lay out lighten reveal uncover unmask

STRONG

open

WEAK

illuminate loose

Example Sentences

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Feel grateful we live in a time when the obscurest, niche-iest, weirdest series you love got a chance to exist.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2018

"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coetzee calls him "the obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was now day everywhere else, but there a deeper darkness prevailed than in the obscurest night, though it was in some degree dissipated by torches and lights of various kinds.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

It opens with a strange poem called The Shadow of Night, which Mr. Swinburne is not wrong in classing among the obscurest works in English.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George