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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Moby Thesaurus

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