Definition: 1. Make less visible or unclear. 2. Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred. 3. Not clearly understood or expressed. 4. Difficult to find.
Use 'obscure' in a sentence:
1. There are more obscure poems written and printed every year than clear ones.
2. This issue has been obscured by recent events.
3. The country has pretty much defeated the boll weevil, and the Department of Agriculture individually tests every bale on obscure measures.
4. I found her lecture very obscure.
5. Trees obscured his vision; he couldn't see much of the Square's southern half.
6. The origin of the custom is obscure.
7. Your ideas seem very obscure to me.
8. The cold breeze moved through the bushes around him, whispering just loud enough to obscure the chanting.
9. The answer is obscure, optimally so.
10. The origin of the word remains obscure.
11. The codes are so obscure and so flexible that they defy rational explanation.
12. Sometimes this fact is obscured because churches get so bogged down by unimportant rules.
13. He was born around 1650 but his origins remain obscure.
14. The sky was almost entirely obscured by cloud.
15. Guava is an obscure tropical fruit that's subtly acidic, with the sweetness that intensifies as you eat your way to the center.
16. Their physiological significance is obscure.
17. These obscure groups were of little account in national politics.
18. These obscure groups were of little account in either national or international politics.
19. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings and testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions.
20. That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.
21. For some obscure reason , he failed to turn up.
22. They seem interested in obscure knowledge.
23. The view was obscured by fog.
24. The bus stopped at an obscure little town.
25. The response contains language errors or expressions that largely obscure connections or meaning at key junctures.
26. The stories twine together in obscure ways, some successful, some less so.
27. Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusion.
28. The contracts are written in obscure language.
29. One wall of the parliament building is now almost completely obscured by a huge banner.
30. At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter's eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.
31. .the jargon that frequently obscures educational writing.
32. I never learned how to play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness.
33. They were making her feel obscurely worried (= for reasons that were difficult to understand) .
34. The meaning is still obscure to me.
35. We mustn't let these minor details obscure the main issue.
36. His writing is so diffuse and obscure that it is difficult to make out what it is he is trying to say.
37. The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
38. Otherwise you could be pretty obscure.
39. Are you attracted to obscure places?
40. These successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that remain central to black Americans' lives.
41. The veil she was wearing obscured her features.
42. To read or interpret ( ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter ).
43. Her poor English obscured her meaning.
44. The title was unusual and a bit obscure.
45. The ground-floor windows are obscured by wire mesh.
46. The point of his speech is obscure.
47. The obscure charges against him lacked specification.
48. It was an obscure night of early May.
49. Richard's statement was disgracefully obscure.
50. This is not the average cultural exchange. There are no obscure acrobatic troupes and no awkward high school students.
51. The room is too obscure for reading.
52. Don't allow one error to obscure great merits.
53. His clarity of thought and capacity to understand my obscure ramblings is truly exceptional.
54. The derivation of its name is obscure.
55. Rumour, myth and hearsay obscure the truth after months of bloodshed.
