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obscure    音标拼音: [əbskj'ʊr]
a. 微暗的,难解的,含糊的,晦涩的,偏僻的,不著名的
vt. 使阴暗,隐藏,使含糊

微暗的,难解的,含糊的,晦涩的,偏僻的,不着名的使阴暗,隐藏,使含糊

obscure
adj 1: not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of
phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure
battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their
descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and
unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so
long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke [synonym:
{obscure}, {vague}]
2: marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was
dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate
Kafka's work say his style is obscure" [synonym: {dark},
{obscure}]
3: difficult to find; "hidden valleys"; "a hidden cave"; "an
obscure retreat" [synonym: {hidden}, {obscure}]
4: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes
of the war" [synonym: {obscure}, {unknown}, {unsung}]
5: not drawing attention; "an unnoticeable cigarette burn on the
carpet"; "an obscure flaw" [synonym: {obscure}, {unnoticeable}]
6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the
centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages
remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
[synonym: {apart(p)}, {isolated}, {obscure}]
v 1: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by
the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the
valley" [synonym: {obscure}, {befog}, {becloud}, {obnubilate},
{haze over}, {fog}, {cloud}, {mist}]
2: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused
the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" [synonym:
{confuse}, {blur}, {obscure}, {obnubilate}]
3: make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured" [synonym:
{obscure}, {bedim}, {overcloud}]
4: reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
5: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or
concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [synonym:
{obscure}, {blot out}, {obliterate}, {veil}, {hide}]

Obscure \Ob*scure"\ ([o^]b*sk[=u]r"), a. [Compar. {Obscurer}
([o^]b*sk[=u]r"[~e]r); superl. {Obscurest}.] [L. obscurus,
orig., covered; ob- (see {Ob-}) a root probably meaning, to
cover; cf. L. scutum shield, Skr. sku to cover: cf. F.
obscur. Cf. {Sky}.]
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1. Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light;
imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.
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His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
--Prov. xx.
20.
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2. Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to
the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from
observation; unnoticed.
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The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. --Shak.
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The obscure corners of the earth. --Sir J.
Davies.
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3. Not noticeable; humble; mean. "O base and obscure vulgar."
--Shak. "An obscure person." --Atterbury.
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4. Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or
incomprehensible; as, an obscure passage or inscription.
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5. Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an
obscure view of remote objects.
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{Obscure rays} (Opt.), those rays which are not luminous or
visible, and which in the spectrum are beyond the limits
of the visible portion.
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Syn: Dark; dim; darksome; dusky; shadowy; misty; abstruse;
intricate; difficult; mysterious; retired; unnoticed;
unknown; humble; mean; indistinct.
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Obscure \Ob*scure"\ ([o^]b*sk[=u]r"), v. i.
To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark. [Obs.]
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How! There's bad news.
I must obscure, and hear it. --Beau. & Fl.
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Obscure \Ob*scure"\, n.
Obscurity. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obscured}
([o^]b*sk[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Obscuring}.] [L.
obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF. obscurer. See {Obscure}, a.]
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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They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with
obscured lights. --Shak.
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Why, 't is an office of discovery, love,
And I should be obscured. --Shak.
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There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by
the writings of learned men as this. --Wake.
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And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.
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420 Moby Thesaurus words for "obscure":
Cimmerian, abstruse, adiaphanous, adumbrate, aleatoric, aleatory,
ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic,
anonymous, apply to, arcane, around the bush, back of beyond,
baffling, baggy, bandage, beamless, beat about, becloud, beclouded,
bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, befogged, beg the question,
begloom, belie, bemist, benight, beyond one, bicker, black,
black as night, black out, blacken, blanket, blear, bleared,
bleary, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, blobby, block,
block the light, blot out, blur, blurred, blurry, boggle, broad,
brown, buried, caliginous, camouflage, canopy, cast a shadow,
cavil, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, choplogic,
clabber up, clear as mud, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, cloud over,
cloud up, clouded, cloudy, complex, complicate, complicated,
conceal, concealed, confuse, confused, confusing, cope, corrupt,
cover, cover up, covered, covert, cowl, crabbed, cramp, cryptic,
curtain, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darken, darken over,
darkling, darksome, daze, dazzle, deform, deprive of sight,
devious, difficult, dim, dim out, disguise, dismal, disorder,
disordered, disorderly, dissemble, distant, distort,
distract attention from, dodge, double-edged, double-faced,
doubtful, dubious, dull, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipse,
eclipsed, encloud, encompass with shadow, enigmatic, enmist,
ensconce, enshroud, envelop, equivocal, equivocate, esoteric,
evade, evade the issue, excecate, faint, falsify, far, far-off,
featureless, feeble, fence, film, filmy, fog, fog up, foggy,
foreign, formless, fuliginous, fuzz, fuzzy, garble, garbled,
general, glare, gloom, gloomy, gloss over, gouge, grumly,
half-seen, half-visible, hard, hard to understand, haze, hazy,
hedge, hid, hidden, hide, hit-or-miss, hood, hoodwink, humble,
ignotus, ill-defined, illegible, impervious to light, imprecise,
in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings,
inaccessible, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, incommunicado,
incomprehensible, inconclusive, inconsequential, inconspicuous,
indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inexplicable, inform,
inglorious, inscrutable, insignificant, intransparent, intricate,
jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, keep from, keep under cover,
knotty, latent, lax, lay on, lay over, little known, lonesome,
loose, low-profile, lowly, lumpen, make blind, make uncertain,
make unintelligible, mantle, mask, mean, merely glimpsed, mess up,
minor, misadvise, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform,
misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, mist, misteach, misty, muddle,
muddy, muffle, murk, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystify,
mystifying, nameless, nebulous, night-black, night-clad,
night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled,
night-mantled, night-veiled, nitpick, no credit to, nondescript,
nonspecific, nubilate, nubilous, obduce, obfuscate, obfuscated,
obnubilate, obscured, obumbrate, occult, occultate, occulted, odd,
opaque, orderless, out of focus, out-of-the-way, overcast,
overcloud, overlay, overshadow, oversmoke, overspread,
overtechnical, pale, palter, parry, perplexed, perplexing, pervert,
pick nits, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, prevaricate, pussyfoot,
put on, puzzling, quibble, random, rayless, recondite, remote,
removed, renownless, retired, roiled, roily, scramble, scrambled,
screen, scum, secluded, secluse, secret, semivisible, sequestered,
shade, shadow, shadowed forth, shadowy, shady, shapeless, shield,
shift, shroud, shuffle, shy, sidestep, slur over, smog, smoke,
snow-blind, solitary, somber, split hairs, spread over, starless,
stochastic, strange, strike blind, subfusc, sunless, superimpose,
superpose, sweeping, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous,
tergiversate, tough, transcendent, turbid, umbral, uncelebrated,
uncertain, unclear, undefined, under an eclipse, under cover,
under house arrest, under wraps, underground, undestined,
undetermined, undistinguished, unemphatic, unfamed, unfamiliar,
unfathomable, unform, unglorified, unheard-of, unhonored,
unilluminated, unimportant, unintelligible, unknown, unlighted,
unlit, unnamed, unnotable, unnoted, unnoticeable, unnoticed,
unordered, unorganized, unplain, unpopular, unrecognizable,
unremarked, unrenowned, unshape, unspecified, unsung, vague,
varnish, veil, veiled, weak, whitewash, wrapped in clouds

"A Formal Description of the Specification Language OBSCURE",
J. Loeckx, TR A85/15, U Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, 1985.

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