Obscure

Adjective

 * 1) Dark, faint or indistinct.
 * 2) * "I found myself in an obscure wood . ." Dante, Inferno,1,1-2
 * 3) Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
 * 4) Difficult to understand.

Synonyms

 * enigmatic
 * mysterious
 * esoteric

Antonyms

 * clear

Related terms

 * obscurity
 * obscuration

Verb

 * 1)  To darken, make faint etc.
 * 2)  To hide, put out of sight etc.
 * 3) * "I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity." Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat page 62

Adverbs for Obscure
lamentably; altogether; curiously; inconveniently; darkly; murkily; cloudily; foggily; mistily; dimly; confusingly; bewilderingly; unintelligibly; unfortunately; unluckily; unaccountably ; unnecessarily; unsatisfactorily; vaguely; mysteriously; remarkably; vexa-tiously; disappointingly. mysteriously; gloomily; puzzlingly; artfully; purposely; cunningly; hopelessly; patently; diplomatically; politically.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From obscur: <  obscurus:, possibly < ob: + undefined: < root scu:, seen also in scutum:; see scutum, sky.

Adjective

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 不清楚的 (bù qīngchǔ de), 阴暗 (yīn’àn), 模糊的 (móhu de)
 * Czech: temný (dark), nezřetelný  (indistinct)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hämärä (1), vaikeaselkoinen (1, indistinct), huomaamaton (2)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kétes hírű, tompa
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 朦朧とした (もうろうとした, mōrō to shita), 不明瞭な(ふめいりょうな, fumeiryō)
 * Korean: 애매한 (aemaehan)
 * Macedonian: нејасен, мрачен,  замаглен
 * Polish: ciemny, niewyraźny
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese: 不显眼的 (bú xiǎnyǎn de), 不引人注意的 (bú yǐn rén zhùyì de)
 * Polish: mało znany, ukryty


 * Scots:

Verb

 * Polish: zaciemnić, przesłonić


 * Polish: ,


 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * courbes