| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not easily understood |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, clear as mud, complicated, concealed, confusing, cryptic, dark, deep, dim, doubtful, enigmatic, enigmatical, esoteric, far-out, hazy, hidden, illegible, illogical, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, intricate, involved, mysterious, occult, opaque, recondite, unaccountable, unbelievable, unclear, undefined, unfathomable, unintelligible, vague |
Antonyms: |
apparent, clear, explicit, obvious, perceptible, understood |
| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudy, shadowy |
Synonyms: |
blurred, caliginous, clouded, dark, dense, dim, dusk, dusky, faint, fuliginous, gloomy, indistinct, lightless, murky, obfuscated, shady, somber, tenebrous, umbrageous, unilluminated, unlit, veiled |
Antonyms: |
bright, clear, visible |
| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out-of-the-way, little-known |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, arcane, blind, cabalistic, close, covered, cryptic, dark, deep, devious, distant, enigmatic, esoteric, far, far-off, hidden, humble, inaccessible, inconspicuous, inglorious, invisible, irrelevant, lonesome, lowly, minor, mysterious, nameless, odd, oracular, orphic, rare, recondite, remote, removed, reticent, retired, secluded, secret, secretive, seldom seen, sequestered, solitary, undisclosed, undistinguished, unheard-of, unhonored, unimportant, unknown, unnoted, unseen, unsung |
Antonyms: |
distinguished, famous, known |
| Main Entry: | abstruse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
Synonyms: |
Greek to me, abstract, clear as dishwater, complex, complicated, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, heavy*, hidden, incomprehensible, intricate, involved, muddy, obscure, perplexing, profound, puzzling, recondite, subtle, unfathomable, vague |
Antonyms: |
clear, concrete, easy, lucid, obvious, plain, simple |
| Main Entry: | ambiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having more than one meaning |
Synonyms: |
clear as dishwater, cryptic, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, muddy, multivocal, obscure, opaque, polysemous, puzzling, questionable, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague |
| Notes: | ambiguous is vague by accident or intent; equivocal is vague by intent |
Antonyms: |
clear, definite, explicit, lucid |
| Main Entry: | cloudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy; darkened |
Synonyms: |
blurred, confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, emulsified, foggy, gloomy, heavy, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, somber, sullen, sunless, vaporous |
Antonyms: |
clear, cloudless |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
Synonyms: |
accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
Synonyms: |
Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding |
Antonyms: |
apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | concealed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, secret |
Synonyms: |
buried, cached, camouflaged, covered, covered up, covert, enshrouded, guarded, holed up, hush-hush, hushed up, incog, incognito, inconspicuous, masked, obscure, obscured, on the Q. T., perdu, planted, privy, put in the hole, recondite, screened, secreted, shrouded, stashed, tucked away, ulterior, under wraps, unseen, veiled |
Antonyms: |
bare, clear, disclosed, exposed, obvious, open, plain, revealed, shown, told, uncovered |
| Main Entry: | conditional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dependent |
Synonyms: |
codicillary, contingent, depending on, fortuitous, granted on certain terms, guarded, iffy, incidental, inconclusive, limited, modified, not absolute, obscure, provisional, provisory, qualified, relative, reliant, relying on, restricted, restrictive, subject to, tentative, uncertain, with grain of salt, with reservations, with strings attached |
Antonyms: |
independent, unconditional, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted |