Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits, but by degrees, with many repetitions and obscurities which I may omit from his narrative, he laid his strange story before us. (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) I must look down upon anything contented with obscurity when it might rise to distinction.Īs we peered from the darkened sitting-room of the lodging-house, one more dim light glimmered high up through the obscurity. I meekly ordered a bit of fish and a steak, and stood before the fire musing on his obscurity. Oh! but dear Miss Woodhouse, she is now in such retirement, such obscurity, so thrown away.Īfter that Maria dropped back into her old obscurity and Martin began to notice the respectful manner in which he was regarded by the small fry of the neighborhood. He resumed-And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity. (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) “Both the inspector and the doctor will meet me here at that hour, and I hope by that time to have cleared up any little obscurity which the case may still present.” The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination Prominence (the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent) Limbo oblivion (the state of being disregarded or forgotten) Humbleness lowliness obscureness unimportance (the state of being humble and unimportant) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "obscurity"):Īnonymity namelessness (the state of being anonymous)
#Obscurity meaning professional#
Standing (social or financial or professional status or reputation) Obscure (marked by difficulty of style or expression)Īn obscure and unimportant standing not well known Obscure (not clearly expressed or understood) Incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)Ĭlarity (free from obscurity and easy to understand the comprehensibility of clear expression) The variant skū- forms the noun skūmaz “scum” (because it covers the water), which becomes scum in English.Nouns denoting attributes of people and objectsĪbstruseness obscureness obscurity reconditeness In Germanic the variant skeu- forms the base of the noun skeujam “cloud cover, cloud,” becoming skȳ “cloud” in Old Norse, which is the immediate source of English sky (a 13th-century borrowing). The unrecorded Latin adjective scūrus comes from the Proto-Indo-European root (s)keu-, (s)kū- (with variants) “to cover, envelop” ( scūrus therefore means “covered over”). Alternatively, the verb may derive from Middle French obscurer “to make or become dark” or from Latin obscūrāre “to cover, obscure, overshadow, conceal,” a verb derived from obscūrus. The verb obscure may simply derive from the English adjective by functional shift (a change in the grammatical function of a word). The adjective obscure comes from Anglo-French and Middle French oscur, obscur “without light, dark (in color), hard to understand,” from Latin obscūrus “dim, dark, dingy, faint,” an adjective made up of the prefix ob- “toward, against” and the adjective scūrus, which does not occur in Latin. The adjective obscure first appears in English about 1425 (if not earlier) the verb appears around the same time.
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