Definition of Obscure

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Obscure

Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.

Not noticeable; humble; mean.

Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects.

To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark.

Obscurity.

Related Definitions:

Abstruse, An, As, Beautiful, Blind, Clear, Clouded, Conceal, Covered, Dark, Darken, Darkened, Darkness, Destitute, Dim, Distinct, Dusky, Easily, From, Full, Glorious, Hidden, Hide, Humble, Illuminated, Illustrious, Imperfect, In, Inconspicuous, Indistinctly, Inscription, Intelligible, Keep, Legible, Less, Light, Make, Mean, Night, Not, Noticeable, Obscure, Obscurity, Observation, Of, One, Or, Over, Passage, Pertaining, Remote, Render, Retired, Seen, Self, Shaded, Sight, The, To, Understood, View, Visible

Obscure Quotations

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning

Obscure Translations

obscure in Dutch is onbekend, obscuur, donker
obscure in Italian is ermetico
obscure in Latin is ignotus
obscure in Portuguese is obscuro
obscure in Spanish is disimular, umbrio

Quotes