 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
opaque
adjective
1: not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant
energy; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to
X-rays" [ant: {clear}]
2: not clearly understood or expressed [syn: {unintelligible}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Opaque \O*paque"\, adjective [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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Opaque \O*paque"\, noun
That which is opaque; opacity. --Young.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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