Opaque

Adjective

 * 1) Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
 * 2) Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
 * 3)  Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of
 * 4)  Obtuse, stupid.
 * 5)  Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.

Antonyms

 * see-through, translucent, transparent
 * clear, obvious, bright, brilliant

Noun

 * 1)  An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
 * 2) * 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:
 * Through this opaque of Nature and of Soul, / This double night, transmit one pitying ray, / To lighten, and to cheer.
 * 1) Something which is opaque rather than translucent.

Verb

 * 1)  To make, render (more) opaque.

Synonyms

 * blur
 * cloud

Adverbs for Opaque
inconveniently;  absolutely;  satisfactorily; necessarily; completely; hazily; muddily; cloudily; vaporously; mysteriously; strangely; admirably; disappointingly; smokily; bafflingly; perplexingly; bewilderingly.

Thesaurus
Boeotian, abstruse, adiaphanous, ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, arcane, asinine, backward, baffling, becloud, beef-brained, beef-witted, black, blind, blockish, blurred, blurry, bovine, chumpish, clear as mud, cloddish, cloud, clouded, cloudy, cowish, crass, cryptic, dark, darken, dense, dim, doltish, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, dunderheaded, elusive, enigmatic, equivocal, fat, foggy, fuzzy, gross, grumly, hazy, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious to light, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, ineducable, intransparent, klutzy, lumpish, misty, muddy, murky, mysterious, mystifying, nebulous, nubilous, oafish, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obtuse, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, roiled, roily, shadowy, shapeless, slow, smoky, sottish, stolid, stupid, tenebrous, thick, thickheaded, transcendent, turbid, uncertain, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligent, unintelligible, unplain, unteachable, vague, wrongheaded

Etymology
From opacus: (of unknown origin), later reinforced from  opaque:.

Adjective

 * Catalan: opac
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 不透明
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: opaak, ondoorschijnend, ondoorzichtig
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: opaque
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 不透明
 * Norwegian: opak, ugjennomsiktig, ugjennomskinnelig
 * Russian: матовый, непрозрачный
 * Serbo-Croatian: neprozirno, neprogledno, neprovidno
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ogenomskinlig
 * Turkish: ,

Related terms

 * opacity
 * opaquely
 * opaqueness

Adjective

 * 1) opaque

Etymology
From opacus: 'shaded, shady, dark', itself of unknown origin.

Adjective

 * 1) opaque