Converse of object

• fill: Little more than past three or obscurity filled with.

• avoid: To avoid such obscurity I need to be specific.

• deserve: This particular term - which places more emphasis on teaching than on learning - had almost faded into a perhaps deserved obscurity.

• give: She considered the possibility that she was perhaps also blind, given the obscurity of her current environment.

• explain: That would explain the obscurity of the history of Powys during this period: it had effectively ceased to exist as an independent state.

Adjective modifier

• mid-table: He took us from mid-table obscurity to playoff victory with a threadbare squad in the space of seven months.

• wilful: Julian Evans - The Guardian Bad: ..the collection as a whole is vitiated by a wilful obscurity which borders on arrogance.

• relative: Animation attracts quiet, low-key people who are happy to work away in relative obscurity with little contact with the outside world.

• comparative: Dundee United have come a very long way in four decades, progressing from comparative obscurity to become one of Scotland's foremost clubs.

• virtual: From virtual obscurity, PMS or PMT has become one of the most talked about twentieth-century diseases.

• total: Published in October, it lapses into total obscurity.

Noun used with modifier

• table: After two seasons of mid table obscurity the 1983-84 season brought an improvement to 6th.

Preposition: in

• year: Rand's ideas languished in relative obscurity in the years following the publication of her essays.

Preposition: of

• expression: There is the expression of obscurity and there is obscurity of expression.

• subject: The fifth-century BC Greek philosopher Protagoras thought ' the obscurity of the subject ' made dogmatism about the gods unwise.

• law: The Government hoped to use the obscurity of seed law to sneak this decision past the public without anyone noticing.

Preposition: for

• year: My site wallowed in obscurity for a couple years.

• decade: Thereafter he lived in quiet obscurity for four decades.