Word Finder - obscure

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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.

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To hide, put out of sight etc.

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To conceal oneself; to hide.

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Dark, faint or indistinct.

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Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.

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Difficult to understand.

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an obscure passage or inscription;    The speaker made obscure references to little-known literary works.

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Not well-known.

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Unknown or uncertain; unclear.

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The etymological roots of the word "blizzard" are obscure and open to debate.

Everything seemed dark, obscure and terrible.

It was an obscure corner of the world.

With obscure vision, the problem is often fatally compounded.

Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.

With all the obscure allusions, the play is difficult to understand without assistance.

The story of his origin is very obscure.

The early history of Jerusalem is very obscure.

The origin of the word is somewhat obscure.

The origin of the kingdom is obscure.

It was obscure terminology.

The various electrical phenomena of plants also are obscure.

Its signification is obscure; but it certainly contains the word ushtra, " camel."

There's always eBay when you're looking for a deal or an obscure item.

The exact plan of the whole is obscure, but the apartments evidently varied in size from mere closets to extensive courts.

Besides the types forming this series, there are a number of others (Medulloseae and allied forms) which show numerous, often very complex, types of stelar structure, in some cases polystelic, whose origin and relationship with the simpler and better known types is frequently obscure.

Much of his time again was spent on the obscure problems usually combined under the heading " quantum theory."

It would be particularly interesting to ascertain how the nematocysts of a polyp are related to those possessed by the medusa budded from it, and it is possible that in this manner obscure questions of relationship might be cleared up.

The problem with colored contacts originally was the fact that they tended to obscure the vision.

The manor of Ealing early belonged to the see of London; but it is not mentioned in Domesday and its history is obscure.

But it was not a style used at the time these obscure and ancient manors really did have a lord.

Monstrosities.A large class of cases of departure from the normal form, depending on different and often obscure causes, may be grouped together under this heading; most of them arc of the kind termed Teretological, and it is difficult to decide how far they should be regarded as pathological if we insist that a disease threatens the existence of the plant, since many of these malformationse.g.

The word is of obscure origin; a word with similar meaning, Kiel, is found in German, and French has quille, ninepin, apparently connected with Ger.

Allied to the Silphidae are a number of small and obscure families, for which reference must be made to monographs of the order.

In the 19th century the annalistic form was once more employed, either to preserve year by year the memory of passing events (Annual Register, Annuaire de la Revue des deux mondes, &c.) or in writing the history of obscure medieval periods (Jahrbiicher der deutschen Geschichte, Jahrbiicher des deutschen Reiches, Richter's Reichsannalen, &c.), (C. B.*)

The origin of the name lamprey is obscure; it is an adaptation of Fr.

If you use any props with your child, be sure they enhance her face, not obscure it.

With some other types of liner brushes, your hand can obscure the view of where you're applying the liner.

Buying skydiving goggles may sound like an obscure task, and maybe even a difficult one, especially if you live in a small town.

Snopes staffers noticed that the show featured very obscure urban legends that were mostly only found on the Snopes website.

This episode, derided at first at Rome as the act of an obscure Augustinian friar intent on scoring a point in a scholastic disputation, was in reality an event of vast significance, for it brought to the front, as the exponent of the national sentiment, one of the mightiest spirits whom Germany has produced.

Geulincx principally deals with the question, left in an obscure and unsatisfactory state by Descartes, of the relation between soul and body.

They would indulge in prophecies of the last judgment, and back their threats with a string of strange, half-frantic and utterly unmeaning sounds, the sense of which no one with any intelligence could discover; for they were obscure gibberish, and merely furnished any fool or impostor with an occasion to twist the utterances as he chose to his own purposes.

But what became of the work done against friction and such nonconservative forces remained obscure, while the chemical doctrine that heat was an indestructible substance afterwards led to the idea that it was lost.

He only won the hatred of all classes, and was represented by the obscure annalists of that period as an oppressor of the church and a remorseless tyrant.

Popes and emperors who needed the assistance of a city, had to seek it from the consuls, and thus these officers gradually converted an obscure and indefinite authority into what resembles the presidency of a commonwealth.

Through this unexpected and obscure principle of "dialectic Hegel claimed to fulfil his programme of interpreting everything as manifest necessary truth of ideal relationship. It all must be so and you see it must.

The origin of the Pteridophyta (q.v.) is very obscure, but it may be regarded as certain that it is not to be sought among the mosses, which are an extremely specialized and peculiarly differentiated group. Furthermore, both the hydrom and leptom of Pteridophytes have marked peculiarities to which no parallel is to be found among the Bryophytes.

Albinism, with which variegated foliage may be considered, concerns a different set of causes, still obscure, and usually regarded as internal, though experiments go to show that some variegations are infectious.

The details are obscure, and there is considerable doubt as to the part taken in the campaign by Decius and his son (of the same name) respectively.

Mantegna was no less eminent as an engraver, though his history in that respect is somewhat obscure, partly because he never signed or dated any of his plates, unless in one single disputed instance, 1472.

The origin of the "common log" is obscure, but the beginnings of the "continuous log" may be traced back to the r 6th century.

In Poland sixty thousand gentlemen, rich and poor, famous and obscure, but all alike gentlemen, rode out to choose a king by a unanimous vote, and to bind him when chosen by such conditions as they thought good.

Yet this consideration should in no way obscure the fact that the prophet lived and worked in the all-pervading atmosphere of the popular syncretic Yahweh religion, intensely national and local in its character.

The disorders that hastened its end find an analogy in the events of the more obscure period after the death of the earlier Jeroboam.

The interesting conjecture that the second Temple suffered another disaster in the obscure gap which follows the time of Zerubbabel has been urged, after Isa.

Ewing has himself also shown how satisfactorily this theory accords with many other obscure and complicated phenomena, such as those presented by coercive force, differences of magnetic quality, and the effects of vibration, temperature and stress; while as regards simplicity and freedom from arbitrary assumptions it leaves little to be desired.

The application of the theory by P. Langevin to the case of molecular magnetism has been noticed above, and there can be little doubt that in the near future it will contribute to the solution of other problems which are still obscure.

Modern archaeologists approach the question from a different standpoint, but the origin of the American aborigines and of Mexican civilization remains extremely obscure (see America, where the primitive Mexican cultures are fully illustrated, and CENTRAL America).

The market reporters make some attempt to materialize the current gossip, and doubtless catch well enough the great movements in the ebb and flow of demand, but the sum of countless obscure transactions cannot be estimated.

The origin of the quaestorship is obscure, but it was probably instituted simultaneously with the consulship in 509 B.C. 1 The number of the quaestors was originally two, but this was successively increased to four (in 421 B.C.), eight (in 267 or 241 B.C.), and by Sulla (in 81 B.C.) to twenty.