Retard vs Obscure - What's the difference?
retard | obscure |
Retardation; delay.
(slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation.
(slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
To put off; to postpone.
(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
To decelerate; to slow down.
(obsolete) To stay back.
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 retard and obscure
is that retard is to keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder 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 a noun retard
is retardation; delay.As an adjective obscure is
dark, faint or indistinct.retard
English
(wikipedia retard)Noun
(en noun)- Do all retards have a low I.Q.?
Synonyms
* (retardation) delay, hold-up, retardation * (person with mental retardation) idiot, tard (offensive), imbecile (disused medical term), mental deficient (legal term), moron (disused medical term), person with learning difficulties * (stupid person) See alsoVerb
(en verb)- retard the march of an army
- retard the motion of a ship
- to retard the attacks of old age
- to retard a rupture between nations
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Synonyms
* decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down * (postpone) postpone, put off * (stay back) hang back, stay backAntonyms
* accelerate, speed, speed up * (postpone) * (stay back) come forwardDerived terms
* retardedReferences
*IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs
Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----obscure
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.