Obscure  

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Illustration to the Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum (1618) by Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens

Hand of Glory, anonymous

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1. Dark, faint or indistinct.
   • "I found myself in an obscure wood . ." Dante, Inferno,1,1-2
2. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
3. Difficult to understand.

Synonyms

• enigmatic
• mysterious
• esoteric

Antonym

• clear

See also

• Jude the Obscure (1895), a novel by Thomas Hardy
• Thomas the Obscure (1941), a novel by Maurice Blanchot
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), a film by Luis Buñuel