OPAQUE - 11 definitions found
opaque adj 1: not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" [ant: clear] 2: not clearly understood or expressed [syn: opaque, unintelligible] opaque - bocnod Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) opaque adjective Etymology: Latin opacus Date: 1641 1. exhibiting opacity ; blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light 2. a. hard to understand or explain <opaque prose> b. obtuse, thickheaded • opaque noun • opaquely adverb • opaqueness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary opaque əuˈpeɪk adj. & n. --adj. (opaquer, opaquest) 1 not transmitting light. 2 impenetrable to sight. 3 obscure; not lucid. 4 obtuse, dull-witted. --n. 1 an opaque thing or substance. 2 a substance for producing opaque areas on negatives. øøopaquely adv. opaqueness n. [ME opak f. L opacus: spelling now assim. to F] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Opaque \O*paque"\, a. [F., fr. L. opacus. Cf. Opacous.] 1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. [Colloq.] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Opaque \O*paque"\, n. That which is opaque; opacity. --Young. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms opaque a. Not transparent. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) opaque əuˈpeɪk adj. 1 dark, murky, dim, turbid, muddy, cloudy, obscure, obscured, obfuscated, black, impermeable, impenetrable, clouded, non-transparent, untransparent, non-translucent, hazy, blurred, blurry, smoky: Solar eclipses should be viewed directly only through special opaque glass. 2 unclear, vague, indefinite, obscure, unfathomable, unplumbable, baffling, mystifying, ambiguous, equivocal, impenetrable, cryptic, enigmatic, puzzling, perplexing, mysterious, elusive, abstruse, arcane, recondite: Despite years of study, the inscriptions on the tomb have remained opaque to scholars. 3 unintelligent, dense, thick, dull, obtuse, stupid, dull-witted, stolid, thickheaded, dunderheaded, dunderpated, slow, doltish, backward, cloddish: He was too opaque to notice the jeers of his colleagues. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 97 Moby Thesaurus words for "opaque": Boeotian, abstruse, adiaphanous, ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, arcane, asinine, backward, baffling, becloud, beef-brained, beef-witted, black, blind, blockish, blurred, blurry, bovine, chumpish, clear as mud, cloddish, cloud, clouded, cloudy, cowish, crass, cryptic, dark, darken, dense, dim, doltish, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, dunderheaded, elusive, enigmatic, equivocal, fat, foggy, fuzzy, gross, grumly, hazy, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious to light, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, ineducable, intransparent, klutzy, lumpish, misty, muddy, murky, mysterious, mystifying, nebulous, nubilous, oafish, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obtuse, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, roiled, roily, shadowy, shapeless, slow, smoky, sottish, stolid, stupid, tenebrous, thick, thickheaded, transcendent, turbid, uncertain, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligent, unintelligible, unplain, unteachable, vague, wrongheaded |
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