obscure
IPA: ʌbskjˈʊr
verb
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.
adjective
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
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Examples of "obscure" in Sentences
- Stealing a radiator cap and planting radiating material in a victim: how obscure is that?
- Telemachus plays rep hockey, which means we spend a lot of time hunting down arenas in obscure communities in our area of Ontario.
- Determination to dig out the obscure is evident in listing stories from California Highway Patrolmen, Our Dumb Animals, and Hungarian Studies in English.
- For 48 hours the people of Twitter guided me around the city, from backstreet art galleries in obscure eastern suburbs to glorious belle époque eating halls in Montmartre.
- Now, in that which you call the obscure indefinite sense of the word MATTER, it is plain, by your own confession, there was included no idea at all, no sense except an unknown sense; which is the same thing as none.
- Now, in that which you call the obscure indefinite sense of the word Matter, it is plain, by your own confession, there was included no idea at all, no sense except an unknown sense; which is the same thing as none.
- Whereas before the fanfic might be published in obscure fanzines with a circulation of a hundred, now tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, can read these ... well, let's just call them "unauthorized derivative works."
- In fact, it should come to pass that the word "obscure" should be removed from the pop music lexicon-it's always been an impossible task to keep up with every musician creating new, vital music, but today that ideal seems like a hopeless throwback to a time when much of society i.e.
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