obscureadjective
uk/əbˈskjʊər/us/əbˈskjʊr/obscure adjective (NOT KNOWN)
not known to many people:
an obscure island in the Pacific
an obscure 12th-century mystic
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Unknown and unfamiliar
- a pig in a poke idiom
- alien
- foreign
- hidden
- lesser-known
- obscurity
- pig
- shadowy
- strange
- strangeness
- TBD
- uncharted
- uncommon
- unexplored
- unfamiliar
- unheard-of
- unsung
- unused
- vocabulary
- wild card
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obscure adjective (NOT CLEAR)
not clear and difficult to understand or see:
Official policy has changed, for reasons that remain obscure.
His answers were obscure and confusing.
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Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- arcane
- blurred
- diffuse
- equivocal
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- opaque
- oracular
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- puzzling
- veiled
- verbose
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obscureverb [ T ]
uk/əbˈskjʊər/us/əbˈskjʊr/to prevent something from being seen or heard:
Two new skyscrapers had sprung up, obscuring the view from her window.
The sun was obscured by clouds.
to make something difficult to discover and understand:
Managers deliberately obscured the real situation from federal investigators.
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Hiding and disguising
- be holed up idiom
- bury
- camo
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- concealment
- drown
- hit the deck idiom
- hole up (somewhere)
- illusion
- incognito
- infiltration
- sidle
- skulk
- smokescreen
- snuck
- stash
- tuck
- veil
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive
obscurely
adverb uk/əbˈskjʊə.li/us/əbˈskjʊr.li/
The official statement was obscurely worded.