obscurity
US: /əbˈskjʊɹəti/
UK: /ɒbskjˈʊɹɪti/
UK: /ɒbskjˈʊɹɪti/
English Vietnamese dictionary
obscurity /əb'skjuəriti/
- danh từ
- sự tối tăm, sự mờ mịt
- sự tối nghĩa, sự khó hiểu
- sự không có tên tuổi, tình trạng ít người biết đến
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural obscurities)
1 [U] the state in which sb/sth is not well known or has been forgotten: The actress was only 17 when she was plucked from obscurity and made a star. + He spent most of his life working in obscurity.
2 [U, C, usually pl.] the quality of being difficult to understand; something that is difficult to understand: The course teaches students to avoid ambiguity and obscurity of expression. + a speech full of obscurities
3 [U] (literary) darkness
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 dimness, darkness, gloom, murk, murkiness, duskiness, dusk, blackness, faintness, blurriness, shade, shadow, haze, fog, cloudiness, nebulousness:
The two of them vanished into the obscurity of the night.
2 abstruseness, ambiguousness, intricacy, complexity, unintelligibility; mystery, arcanum, secret, esoterica (pl.):
Can he truly believe that he has fathomed all the obscurities of Scripture?
3 insignificance, unimportance, ingloriousness, inconspicuousness, anonymity, namelessness, limbo:
After a fleeting surge of popularity, punk rock sank into obscurity.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
total | comparative, relative | political, professional | impenetrable
poems of impenetrable obscurity
VERB + OBSCURITY
fade into, sink into, slip into | be plucked from, emerge from
After many years, his scientific work emerged from obscurity.
| be consigned to, be relegated to
PREP.
in ~
He spent his early life in relative obscurity.
Concise English dictionary
obscuritiesəb'skjʊrətɪ /-kjʊə-
noun
+the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
+an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known
+the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
