| Main Entry: | obscurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vagueness |
Synonyms: |
ambiguity, darkness, dimness, fuzziness, indistinctness, obscureness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | obscurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
loose, abstruse, ambiguous, brumous, confused, crabbed, dark, dim, enigmatic, enigmatical, hidden, illegible, impenetrable, inapprehensible, incognizable, incommunicable, inconceivable, inconceptible, indefinite, inexplicable, inexpressible, inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, involved, larvate, latent, latitant, macroscian, metagnostic, misty, muddy, mysterious, mystic, mystical, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, occult, paradoxical, perplexed, puzzlepated, puzzling, recondite, searchless, sphingine, tenebrific, transcendental, turbid, unaccountable, unconceived, undeciphered, undefinable, undetermined, undiscernible, undiscoverable, unexplained, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknowable, vague
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| Concept: | Obscurity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
obscurity (unintelligibility); involution; hard words; ambiguity; unintelligibleness; vagueness, inexactness [more]; what d'ye call 'em (neologism) [more]; darkness of meaning.
-adjectives
obscure; crabbed, involved, confused.
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Antonyms: |
perspicuity |
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| Main Entry: | ambiguity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty of meaning |
Synonyms: |
anagram, double meaning, double-entendre, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enigma, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, obscurity, polysemousness, polysemy, puzzle, tergiversation, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness |
Antonyms: |
certainty, clarity, clearness, definiteness, explicitness, lucidity |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
Synonyms: |
billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
Synonyms: |
caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
Antonyms: |
brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
Synonyms: |
Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
Antonyms: |
brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy mist that reduces visibility |
Synonyms: |
London fog, brume, cloud, effluvium, film, gloom, grease, ground clouds, haze, miasma, murk, murkiness, nebula, obscurity, pea soup, smaze, smog, smoke, smother, soup, steam, vapor, visibility zero-zero, wisp |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
Antonyms: |
clearness |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental unclarity |
Synonyms: |
befuddlement, blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, muddledness, muddlement, obscurity, perplexity, stupor, trance, vagueness |
Antonyms: |
cognizance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness, blackness |
Synonyms: |
bleakness, cloud, cloudiness, dimness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, gloominess, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight |
Antonyms: |
brightness, light, sunniness |