opaque

Meanings

Adjective

• Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
• Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
• Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of
• Obtuse, stupid.
• Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.

Noun

• An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
• Something which is opaque rather than translucent.

Verb

• To make, render (more) opaque.

Related

Similar words

• blur
• cloud

Opposite words

• see-through, translucent, transparent
• clear, obvious, bright, brilliant

Origin

• From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus ("shaded, shady, dark") (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque. ubac.