Synonyms of the word

obscure

• adj. Dark, faint or indistinct.
• adj. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
• adj. difficult to understand.
• adj. not well-known.
• v. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible,…
• v. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

apart

• adv. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
• adv. In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter…
• adv. Aside; away.
• adv. In or into two or more parts.
• prep. (following its objective complement) apart from.
• n. Misspelling of a part.

becloud

• v. (transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
• v. (transitive, usually passive) To cover or surround with clouds.

bedim

• v. (transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.

befog

• v. To envelop in fog.
• v. To confuse; mystify.

benight

• v. To overtake with night.
• v. (of a traveller, etc) To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
• v. To darken.

blur

• v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
• v. To smear, stain or smudge.
• v. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
• v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
• n. A smear, smudge or blot.
• n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
• n. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
• adj. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cloud

• n. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
• n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
• n. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
• n. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
• n. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
• n. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
• n. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage,…
• n. (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver…
• n. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
• n. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
• v. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
• v. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
• v. (transitive) To make obscure.
• v. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
• v. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
• v. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

conceal

• v. (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

concealed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of conceal.

confuse

• v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
• v. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
• v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
• v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
• v. To mistake one thing for another.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

darken

• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
• v. (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (transitive) To blind, impair eyesight.
• v. (intransitive) To be blinded, loose clear vision.
• v. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
• v. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

dishonorable

• adj. Without honor, or causing dishonor.
• adj. Lacking respect or ethical principles.

fog

• n. (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
• n. (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
• n. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
• n. (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
• n. (computer graphics) Distance fog.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
• v. (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
• v. (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
• v. (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
• v. (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
• v. (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
• v. (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
• v. (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
• v. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
• n. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
• n. (Scotland) Moss.
• v. (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

hidden

• v. past participle of hide.
• adj. That has been moved out of sight. Invisible or unapparent.
• adj. Obscure.
• adj. That has been hidden.

hide

• v. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
• v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
• n. (countable) The skin of an animal.
• n. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
• n. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
• n. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals…
• v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
• n. (historical) An English unit of land and tax assessment intended to support one household and notionally…

incomprehensible

• adj. Impossible or very difficult to understand.

inconspicuous

• adj. Not prominent nor easily noticeable.

inglorious

• adj. Ignominious; disgraceful.
• adj. Not famous; obscure.

invisible

• adj. Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.
• adj. Not appearing on the surface.
• adj. (Internet) Apparently, but not actually, offline.
• adj. (psychology) That is ignored by a person.
• v. To invisiblize.
• n. (obsolete) An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
• n. (obsolete) A Rosicrucian; so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.
• n. (obsolete) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.

isolated

• adj. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
• adj. (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
• adj. (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
• adj. (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of isolate.

mist

• n. (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
• n. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
• v. To form mist.
• v. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
• v. To cover with a mist.
• v. (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

obliterate

• v. To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

obnubilate

• adj. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
• v. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
• v. To make cloudy.

overcloud

• v. To cover, or become covered, with clouds.

unclear

• adj. Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation.
• adj. Not clearly or explicitly defined.
• adj. Not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable.
• adj. Not having a clear idea; uncertain.

uncomprehensible

• adj. Incomprehensible.

unconnected

• adj. not connected or joined.
• adj. confused or disconnected.

unknown

• adj. (sometimes postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known.
• n. (algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
• n. Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").
• n. A person of no identity; a nonentity.

unnoticeable

• adj. Not noticeable.

unsung

• adj. Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
• adj. Not sung.

vague

• adj. Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
• adj. Not having a precise meaning.
• adj. Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
• adj. Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
• adj. Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
• adj. Lacking expression; vacant.
• adj. Not sharply outlined; hazy.
• adj. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
• n. (obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
• n. An indefinite expanse.
• v. To wander; to roam; to stray.

veil

• n. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze,…
• n. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
• n. The calyptra of mosses.
• n. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
• n. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head).
• n. (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa).
• n. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
• v. To put on, or decorate with, a veil.
• v. To conceal as with a veil.