obscurity English

Meaning obscurity meaning

What does obscurity mean?

obscurity

— noun (= obscureness) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

— noun an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known he worked in obscurity for many years

— noun the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

Synonyms obscurity synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as obscurity?

obscurity English » English

darkness

vagueness

dimness

dark

unclearness

obscureness

indistinctness

gloom

ambiguity

reconditeness

opacity

abstruseness

unknown

shadiness

mystery

murk

misfortune

insignificance

haziness

eclipse

dullness

cloudiness

bad luck

vague

unimportance

unclear

uncertainness

sombreness

slight darkness

shade

secrecy

overcast

night-time

nameless

murkiness

muddiness

mistiness

mirk

lower

low rank

lignite

latency

involvedness

intricacy

inscrutability

inferior

inexplicitness

incomprehensibility

incoherence

incertitude

Examples obscurity examples

How do I use obscurity in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He lived and died in obscurity.

Obscurity is by no means a proof of deep thought.

Movie subtitles

The love of a Princess for a monster coming from the obscurity.

But his reputation as a crook was ruined, and he faded into obscurity.

Philosopher, inventor and patriot, he rose from obscurity to become one of the greatest figures in American history.

Somewhere a hungry little singing group is waiting for Max Detweiler. to pluck it out of obscurity and make it famous at the Salzburg Folk Festival.

The world is full, nowadays, of those pretenders to nobility of those impostors, who take advantage of their obscurity and deck themselves out with the first illustrious name that comes into their head.

Minister, her Majesty's civil servants spend their lives working for a modest wage and at the end retire into obscurity.

And retire into obscurity?!

Because if you want to be a musician. you're guaranteeing yourself a life of poverty and obscurity. unless you're talented like Stanley.

From obscurity in a cellar in Liverpool four years ago. and now to Buckingham Palace.

You understand, we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Some writers can only work in obscurity.

We toil in unrewarded obscurity.

You have lived your short life in odium and obscurity.

I toiled for many years. in utter obscurity beneath your boulevards.

If you were, you wouldn't let her remain in obscurity.

No more obscurity, no more worries, no mood swings. For you've found a reasonable man.

Paolo, some things are best left in the obscurity you find them in.

It was my last effort a pathetic gesture against the advancing obscurity.

The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight, as being the subject of recent discussion, Is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as previous disclosures led you to assume.

Look, Al, all they want you to do is to announce this year's MVP and then slink off into the shadows of obscurity, where you belong.

Here was this unknown genius, who died in obscurity, and who now belongs, you know, in the pantheon of great cinema artists and innovators.

In the future years, Miss Goodbottom when I've gone on to successful sequels and you've gone on to relative obscurity please remember, at this moment, I was only thinking of you.

From your obscurity you will be able to follow my career.

Call it obscurity.

One could happily live in obscurity.

Jerome smile slowly surfaced from obscurity In the middle of the night lights and shadows of the day.

The only colour: the joy to challenge one's own obscurity.

I prefer to remain in obscurity with these masses, rather than to consent to harangue them under the artificial floodlights manipulated by their hypnotizers.

Here once more is the think obscurity, around us. The calm of that ban, which is our law.

Obscurity.

Imagine a silence. Charged with premonitions. Menaces and obscurity.

But you yourself appear to have found ways. of dealing with obscurity.

Becomes. small in his immense obscurity.

In blue obscurity of sea!

They are born and grow in obscurity.

News and current affairs

The weaker the civilian leadership has become, the more China has been inclined to discard Deng Xiaoping's dictum tao guang yang hui (hide brightness, nourish obscurity).

They compete, expand, mature, and eventually, with few exceptions, fade into obscurity.

The particular afternoon was perfect, sunny and quiet, the room's semi-obscurity hospitable.

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

Per Jacobsson, the Swedish economist who brought the Fund back from obscurity in the 1950's, had been an official at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.