obscurity Definition
ob·scu·rity (--skyo̵or′ə tē)
noun
- the quality or condition of being obscure
- pl. -·ties an obscure person or thing
obscurity Synonyms
obscurity Usage Examples
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.
- penetrate: But the misadventures of the world are forcing us to penetrate the obscurities of his language that barred access to many potential allies.
- 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
- meaning: The obscurities of meaning discussed earlier would almost certainly be made even more impenetrable if further constrained by the need to find rhyming words.
- 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
Browse dictionary entries near obscurity
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