obscurity 音标拼音: [əbskj'ʊrəti]
n . 阴暗,不分明,朦胧,含糊,晦涩,偏僻,隐匿,身份低微
阴暗,不分明,朦胧,含糊,晦涩,偏僻,隐匿,身份低微
obscurity n 1 :
the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [
synonym : {
obscureness }, {
obscurity },
{
abstruseness }, {
reconditeness }] [
ant : {
clarity },
{
clearness }, {
limpidity }, {
lucidity }, {
lucidness },
{
pellucidity }]
2 :
an obscure and unimportant standing ;
not well known ; "
he worked in obscurity for many years " [
ant : {
prominence }]
3 :
the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination [
synonym : {
obscurity }, {
obscureness }]
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n . [
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The quality or state of being obscure .
Syn :
darkness ;
privacy ;
inconspicuousness ;
unintelligibleness ;
uncertainty .
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1913 Webster ]
You are not for obscurity designed . --
Dryden .
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1913 Webster ]
They were now brought forth from obscurity ,
to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair . --
Macaulay .
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1913 Webster ]
Syn :
Darkness ;
dimness ;
gloom .
See {
Darkness }.
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1913 Webster ]
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "
obscurity ":
Egyptian darkness ,
Erebus ,
a nobody ,
a nothing ,
abstruseness ,
adiaphanousness ,
ambiguousness ,
amorphia ,
amorphism ,
amorphousness ,
anarchy ,
anonymity ,
arcanum ,
blackness ,
bleariness ,
blobbiness ,
blur ,
blurriness ,
broadness ,
chaos ,
cipher ,
cloudiness ,
common man ,
complexity ,
confusion ,
dark ,
darkness ,
darkness visible ,
dead of night ,
defocus ,
dimness ,
disorder ,
dummy ,
dusk ,
duskiness ,
entropy ,
esoterica ,
faintness ,
feebleness ,
figurehead ,
filminess ,
fog ,
fogginess ,
formlessness ,
fuzziness ,
generality ,
gloom ,
half -
visibility ,
haze ,
haziness ,
ill -
definedness ,
imperviousness to light ,
imprecision ,
inaccuracy ,
inchoateness ,
incoherence ,
indecisiveness ,
indefinableness ,
indefiniteness ,
indeterminateness ,
indistinctness ,
indistinguishability ,
inexactness ,
ingloriousness ,
insignificance ,
insignificancy ,
intense darkness ,
intransparency ,
intricacy ,
jackstraw ,
laxity ,
lightlessness ,
lightweight ,
limbo ,
little fellow ,
little guy ,
looseness ,
low profile ,
man of straw ,
mediocrity ,
messiness ,
mist ,
mistiness ,
moonlessness ,
mumbo jumbo ,
murk ,
murkiness ,
mystery ,
mystification ,
namelessness ,
nebbish ,
nebulousness ,
night ,
nobody one knows ,
nonentity ,
obfuscation ,
obscurantism ,
obscuration ,
obscure ,
obscure darkness ,
opacity ,
opaque ,
opaqueness ,
orderlessness ,
paleness ,
perplexity ,
pip -
squeak ,
pitch -
darkness ,
pitchy darkness ,
punk ,
roil ,
roiledness ,
runt ,
scrub ,
secret ,
semivisibility ,
shade ,
shadow ,
shadowiness ,
shapelessness ,
shrimp ,
small fry ,
small potato ,
small potatoes ,
soft focus ,
squirt ,
squit ,
starlessness ,
sunlessness ,
swarthiness ,
sweepingness ,
tenebrosity ,
tenebrousness ,
the palpable obscure ,
total darkness ,
turbidity ,
turbidness ,
uncertainty ,
unclarity ,
unclearness ,
unimportance ,
unintelligibility ,
unplainness ,
vague appearance ,
vagueness ,
velvet darkness ,
weakness ,
whiffet ,
whippersnapper
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OBSCURITY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of OBSCURITY is one that is obscure How to use obscurity in a sentence
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Obscurity Meaning, Definition, Synonym Antonym (2025) | BUHAVE ‘Obscurity’ means the condition of being not well known, not clearly expressed, or hard to perceive or understand It can describe people, ideas, or objects that lack clarity or prominence
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