obscured

The word “obscured” has 2 syllables: ob-scured

It's pronounced as /əbˈskjʊərd/


What is synonym and antonym for obscured?

In the thesaurus, “obscured” has 112 synonyms and 71 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for obscured along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for obscured

  • adumbrated
  • ambiguous
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • belied
  • black
  • blackened
  • blanketed
  • bleared
  • blocked
  • blotted out
  • blurred
  • buried
  • caliginous
  • camouflaged
  • cloaked
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • concealed
  • cover
  • covered
  • covert
  • crepuscular
  • cryptic
  • curtained
  • dark
  • darkened
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darksome
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • disguised
  • dislimned
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • eclipsed
  • enigmatic
  • enshrouded
  • equivocal
  • fogged
  • foggy
  • fuliginous
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • gloomy
  • gray
  • grey
  • guarded
  • hazed
  • hid
  • hidden
  • implied
  • lackluster
  • leaden
  • lightless
  • masked
  • misted
  • misty
  • moonless
  • murky
  • obliterated
  • obscure
  • obstructed
  • occluded
  • occulted
  • overcast
  • overclouded
  • overshadowed
  • pale
  • papered over
  • personal
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • privy
  • rayless
  • remote
  • screened
  • secondary
  • selfish
  • shaded
  • shadowed
  • shadowlike
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • shrouded
  • smoggy
  • smothered
  • somber
  • sombre
  • soupy
  • starless
  • stygian
  • sunless
  • suppressed
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • twilit
  • under cover
  • under wraps
  • undisclosed
  • undivulged
  • unexpressed
  • unlit
  • unsaid
  • varnished
  • veiled
  • whitewashed

Antonyms for obscured

  • ablaze
  • advertised
  • agleam
  • aglitter
  • aired
  • alight
  • bare
  • bared
  • beaming
  • beamy
  • bright
  • brightened
  • brilliant
  • broadcast
  • broadcasted
  • brought out
  • clarified
  • clear
  • disclosed
  • displayed
  • divulged
  • effulgent
  • exposed
  • expressed
  • floodlighted
  • floodlit
  • glaring
  • glossy
  • glowing
  • got out
  • highlighted
  • illuminated
  • illumined
  • incandescent
  • lambent
  • light
  • lighted
  • lightened
  • lightsome
  • lit
  • lucent
  • lucid
  • luminous
  • lustrous
  • moonlit
  • moony
  • obvious
  • open
  • presented
  • proclaimed
  • publicized
  • published
  • radiant
  • relucent
  • resplendent
  • revealed
  • shining
  • shiny
  • showed
  • sparkling
  • spotlighted
  • spotlit
  • spread
  • starlit
  • stated
  • sunlit
  • ultrabright
  • uncloaked
  • uncovered
  • unmasked
  • unveiled

Meanings of obscured

  • verb
    1. 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.
    2. To hide, put out of sight etc.
    3. To conceal oneself; to hide.

Example Sentences

  • The thick fog obscured the view of the mountains in the distance.
  • His true intentions were obscured by his vague and ambiguous statements.
  • The old photograph had become faded and obscured over time.
  • The moonlight was obscured by heavy clouds, casting the night in darkness.
  • The truth was deliberately obscured by layers of misinformation and deception.

On this page you'll find 183 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to obscured, such as: ablaze, adumbrated, advertised, agleam, aglitter, aired, alight.

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Related Words

lackluster

ulterior

  • after
  • ambiguous
  • anticipated
  • approaching
  • awaited
  • buried
  • coming
  • concealed
  • covert
  • cryptic
  • dark
  • enigmatic
  • ensuing
  • equivocal
  • eventual
  • expected
  • final
  • forthcoming
  • future
  • guarded
  • hidden
  • imminent
  • impending
  • implied
  • last
  • later
  • nearing
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • oncoming
  • pending
  • personal
  • planned
  • posterior
  • predicted
  • privy
  • projected
  • prospective
  • remote
  • secondary
  • selfish
  • shrouded
  • subsequent
  • ultimate
  • unborn
  • under cover
  • under wraps
  • undisclosed
  • undivulged
  • unexpressed
  • unsaid
  • upcoming

umbrageous

caliginous

dark

  • Cimmerian
  • Delphian
  • Delphic
  • abstruse
  • ambiguous
  • anagogic
  • analphabetic
  • aphotic
  • arcane
  • artless
  • atramentous
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • baffling
  • banned
  • barred
  • base
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • benighted
  • bewildering
  • black
  • blackish
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blue
  • brainless
  • brownout
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • cabalistic
  • caliginous
  • callow
  • candlelight
  • censurable
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cimmerian
  • circuitous
  • clandestine
  • cloaked
  • close
  • closemouthed
  • clouded
  • cloudiness
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concealed
  • concealment
  • condemned
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • covert
  • crepuscular
  • cruel
  • cryptic
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • damnable
  • darkened
  • darkening
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darkness
  • darksome
  • dead of night
  • debased
  • debauched
  • deep
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • dejected
  • denseness
  • depraved
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despicable
  • despondent
  • difficult
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dingy
  • dire
  • dirty
  • disallowed
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • discreet
  • disguised
  • disheartening
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • double-edged
  • dour
  • down
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dumb
  • dun
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • eerie
  • eery
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elliptic
  • elliptical
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • equivocal
  • errant
  • erring
  • esoteric
  • evening
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • execrable
  • faint
  • faintness
  • fallen
  • fogginess
  • foggy
  • foolish
  • forbidden
  • forbidding
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • frowning
  • fuliginous
  • functionally illiterate
  • funereal
  • furtive
  • fuzzy
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • gloomy
  • glowering
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grayness
  • green
  • grey
  • grim
  • half-light
  • hangdog
  • haziness
  • hazy
  • hellish
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hugger-mugger
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignoble
  • ignorant
  • ill
  • ill-lighted
  • illegal
  • illiterate
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoral
  • impalpable
  • impenetrable
  • improper
  • inappreciable
  • incomprehensible
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • indecent
  • indecipherable
  • indecorous
  • indefinite
  • indirect
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • inexact
  • inexperienced
  • inexplicable
  • inexplicit
  • infamous
  • infernal
  • iniquitous
  • inky
  • innocent
  • innumerate
  • inscrutability
  • inscrutable
  • intangible
  • interdicted
  • intricate
  • invisible
  • joyless
  • knotty
  • lackluster
  • lamentable
  • leaden
  • libertine
  • lightless
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • loose
  • louring
  • loury
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-minded
  • lowbrow
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • lurid
  • masked
  • mean
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • midnight
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • mistiness
  • misty
  • moonless
  • morbid
  • moronic
  • morose
  • mournful
  • muddy
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • murky
  • mysterious
  • mystic
  • mystical
  • mystifying
  • naive
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nebulous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • night
  • nightfall
  • nighttime
  • noncommittal
  • nonliterate
  • not known
  • noxious
  • obfuscatory
  • obfuscous
  • objectionable
  • obnubilated
  • obscene
  • obscurant
  • obscurantic
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • obscurity
  • obtuse
  • occult
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • opaque
  • oppressive
  • outlawed
  • overcast
  • pale
  • paleness
  • pernicious
  • perplexing
  • perverted
  • pessimistic
  • pestilential
  • philistine
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • prudent
  • puzzling
  • questionable
  • quiet
  • raw
  • rayless
  • recondite
  • reprehensible
  • reprobate
  • reserved
  • reticent
  • rotten
  • roundabout
  • rude
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • scowling
  • scrofulous
  • seclusion
  • secrecy
  • secret
  • secretive
  • semidarkness
  • semiliterate
  • senseless
  • sepulchral
  • shade
  • shaded
  • shadiness
  • shadowlike
  • shadows
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • shrouded
  • sick
  • silent
  • silly
  • simple
  • sinful
  • sinister
  • smoggy
  • sneak
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • solemn
  • somber
  • somberness
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • soupy
  • sphinxlike
  • starless
  • stealthy
  • stupid
  • stygian
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surreptitious
  • swart
  • swarthy
  • taciturn
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • thickness
  • threatening
  • tight-lipped
  • tight-mouthed
  • twilight
  • twilit
  • ugly
  • umbra
  • umbrage
  • unanswerable
  • unauthorized
  • unbecoming
  • uncanny
  • uncertain
  • unclean
  • unclear
  • uncommunicative
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undefined
  • undercover
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • undetermined
  • uneducated
  • unenlightened
  • unethical
  • unfathomable
  • ungodly
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • uninstructed
  • unknowable
  • unknowledgeable
  • unlawful
  • unlearned
  • unlettered
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • unprincipled
  • unpropitious
  • unread
  • unrighteous
  • unsavory
  • unschooled
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unskilled
  • unsophisticated
  • untaught
  • untrained
  • untutored
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • vague
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vulgar
  • weird
  • wicked
  • witching hour
  • witless
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched
  • wrong

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