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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obscured ([o^]b*sk[=u]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Obscuring.] [L. obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF. obscurer. See Obscure, a.] 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. [1913 Webster] They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured. --Shak. [1913 Webster] There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this. --Wake. [1913 Webster] And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Obscure \Ob*scure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obscured; p. pr. & vb. n. Obscuring.] [L. obscurare, fr. obscurus: cf. OF. obscurer. See Obscure, a.] 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. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights. --Shak. Why, 't is an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscured. --Shak. There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this. --Wake. And seest not sin obscures thy godlike frame? --Dryden.From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
obscured a. Made hidden, less visible, or dark. vb. (infl of en obscure ed-form)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
obscured a. Made hidden, less visible, or dark. vb. (infl of en obscure ed-form)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
obscured a. Made hidden, less visible, or dark. vb. (infl of en obscure ed-form)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
obscured a. Made hidden, less visible, or dark. vb. (infl of en obscure ed-form)From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
obscured Englanti vb. (en-v-taivm o bscure d)From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
obscured Engelska a. (avledning en obscure ordform=perfpart) Engelska vb. (böjning en verb obscure)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ محجوبFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]zahalený
obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]zakrytý
obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ hinweggetäuscht Synonyms: disguised, hidden, concealed, masked see: disguise, obscure, hide, conceal, mask sth., disguising, obscuring, hiding, concealing, maskingFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ verdunkelt see: obscure, obscuring, obscures, obscuredFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ verdunkelte see: obscure, obscuring, obscured, obscuresFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
obscured /ɒbskjˈʊəd/ verschleiert, vernebelt, verwischt, verunklärt Synonym: obfuscated see: obscure sth., obfuscate sth., obscuring, obfuscatingFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/əbˈskjʊɹd/
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "obscured": abstruse, armored, beamless, beclouded, bedazzled, between the lines, beyond one, black, black as night, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, buried, caliginous, cased, ceiled, cloaked, close, clouded, coated, complex, complicated, concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, crabbed, cramp, cryptic, curtained, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkened, darkling, darksome, dazed, dazzled, delitescent, difficult, dormant, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, excecate, filmed, floored, garbled, guarded, hard, hard to understand, hibernating, hid, hidden, hooded, hoodwinked, housed, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, intricate, jumbled, knotty, latent, loricate, loricated, lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mysterious, mystic, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, obfuscated, obscure, occult, occulted, overtechnical, packaged, paved, perplexed, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, possible, potential, privy, rayless, recondite, roofed-in, scrambled, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, snow-blind, snow-blinded, starless, submerged, sunless, swathed, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, tented, tough, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, unilluminated, unknown, unlighted, unlit, unmanifested, veiled, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped, wrapped in clouds