Opaque

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Opaque \O*paque"\, a. [F., fr. L. opacus. Cf. {Opacous}.]
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     1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an
        opaque substance.
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     2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Opaque \O*paque"\, n.
     That which is opaque; opacity. --Young.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  opaque
       adj 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 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