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obscured

/uhb-skyoor/US // əbˈskyʊər //UK // (əbˈskjʊə) //

掩盖了,遮蔽,隐蔽的,遮蔽的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    ob·scur·er, ob·scur·est.

    • : not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
    • : not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive: obscure motivations.
    • : not expressing the meaning clearly or plainly.
    • : indistinct to the sight or any other sense; not readily seen, heard, etc.; faint.
    • : inconspicuous or unnoticeable: the obscure beginnings of a great movement.
    • : of little or no prominence, note, fame, or distinction: an obscure French artist.
    • : far from public notice, worldly affairs, or important activities; remote; retired: an obscure little town.
    • : lacking in light or illumination; dark; dim; murky: an obscure back room.
    • : enveloped in, concealed by, or frequenting darkness.
    • : not bright or lustrous; dull or darkish, as color or appearance.
    • : having the reduced or neutral sound usually represented by the schwa.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ob·scured, ob·scur·ing.

    • : to conceal or conceal by confusing.
    • : to make dark, dim, indistinct, etc.
    • : to reduce or neutralize to the sound usually represented by a schwa.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : obscurity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.ulterior

Examples

  • Old school video game “fog” and darkness would obscure the darkest regions of the game, most notably the aforementioned Valley of Defilement, which set the bog standard for similar levels, like the infamous “Blighttown” of “Dark Souls.”

  • Why Perdue got interested in an obscure tax regulation, which would impact at most only a small set of the richest Americans, is unclear.

  • The company did not reveal how effective its labels are, except to say that when a label obscures a post, 95 percent of people do not click to see what is behind the warning screen.

  • Amplitudeologists argue that the field picture is obscuring simpler mathematical patterns.

  • High and low, popular and obscure, new and old, holy and profane, Trebek put all of them on equal terms.

  • A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.

  • From the height of 700 feet, a lush uniform green obscured the destruction unfolding below him.

  • People were singing the national anthem as the whole front of the National Palace was obscured by a smoke cloud.

  • His face was partially obscured by a bandana and a baseball cap, from beneath which his long ponytail hung limply.

  • He was captivated by footage of her escape through the hazy entryway of the supermarket, which was obscured by pepper spray.

  • Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.

  • Any epithelial cell may be so granular from degenerative changes that the nucleus is obscured.

  • Like a lifted veil there rose up something that had hitherto obscured his vision.

  • The gloom of approaching night was deepened by the inky clouds that obscured the sky.

  • It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.

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