Darkened vs Obscure - What's the difference?
darkened | obscure |
(darken)
To make dark or darker by reducing light.
* Bible, Exodus x. 15
To become dark or darker (having less light).
To make dark or darker in colour.
To become dark or darker in colour.
To render gloomy, darker in mood
* Shakespeare
To become gloomy, darker in mood
To blind, impair eyesight
* Bible, Rom xi. 10
To be blinded, loose clear vision
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2
* Francis Bacon
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
* Shakespeare
Dark, faint or indistinct.
* (Dante Alighieri), , 1, 1-2
* Bible, Proverbs xx. 20
Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Sir J. Davies
Difficult to understand.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) 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.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Wake) (1657-1737)
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond
(label) To hide, put out of sight etc.
* (Bill Watterson), Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat , page 62
To conceal oneself; to hide.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
As verbs the difference between darkened and obscure
is that darkened is (darken) while obscure is (label) 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.As an adjective obscure is
dark, faint or indistinct.darkened
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*darken
English
Verb
(en verb)- They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .
- With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.
- Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.
- I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Derived terms
* darkener * darken someone's doorSynonyms
* blackenAnagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbsobscure
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- I found myself in an obscure wood.
- His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- The obscure bird / Clamoured the livelong night.
- the obscure corners of the earth
The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure .}}
Usage notes
* The comparative obscurer and superlative obscurest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscure' and ' most obscure .Synonyms
* enigmatic * mysterious * esotericAntonyms
* clearDerived terms
* obscurable * unobscurableVerb
(obscur)- They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
- There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this.
- I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
- How! There's bad news. / I must obscure , and hear it.
