obscure

Meanings

Adjective

• Dark, faint or indistinct.
• Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
• Difficult to understand.
• Not well-known.
• Unknown or uncertain; unclear.

Verb

• To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
• To hide, put out of sight etc.
• To conceal oneself; to hide.

Related

Similar words

• becloud, bedarken, bedim, bemist

Opposite words

• clear

Origin

• From Middle English obscure, from Old French obscur, from Latin obscūrus ("dark, dusky, indistinct"), from ob- + *scūrus, from Proto-Italic *skoiros, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-. oscuro.