blurry English
Adjective
( er)
(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
- If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry .
(figuratively) not clear, not with well-defined boundaries.
- It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harrassment has become quite blurry.
Derived terms
* blurriness
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obscured English
Verb
(head)
(obscure)
Synonyms
* See also
obscure English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Dark, faint or indistinct.
* (Dante Alighieri), , 1, 1-2
- I found myself in an obscure wood.
* Bible, Proverbs xx. 20
- His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
* (William Shakespeare)
- The obscure bird / Clamoured the livelong night.
* Sir J. Davies
- the obscure corners of the earth
Difficult to understand.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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 .}}
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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
* esoteric
Antonyms
* clear
Derived terms
* obscurable
* unobscurable
Related terms
* obscurity
* obscuration
Verb
( obscur)
(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)
- They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
* (William Wake) (1657-1737)
- There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this.
*{{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
- I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
To conceal oneself; to hide.
* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
- How! There's bad news. / I must obscure , and hear it.
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