What is obscure?

More definitions of "obscure":

• (verb): Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing.
  Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, veil, hide

• (verb): Make obscure or unclear.
  Synonyms: bedim, overcloud

• (adj): Difficult to find.
  Example: "An obscure retreat"
  Synonyms: hidden

• (adj): Not famous or acclaimed.
  Example: "An obscure family"
  Synonyms: unknown, unsung

• (verb): Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.
  Synonyms: confuse, blur, obnubilate

• (adj): Marked by difficulty of style or expression.
  Example: "Those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
  Synonyms: dark

• (verb): Make difficult to perceive by sight.
  Synonyms: benight, bedim

• (verb): Make less visible or unclear.
  Synonyms: befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist

• (adj): Not clearly understood or expressed.
  Example: "An obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard
  Synonyms: vague

• (adj): Not drawing attention.
  Example: "An obscure flaw"
  Synonyms: unnoticeable

Famous quotes containing the word obscure:

“the soul,
Remembering how she felt, but what she felt
Remembering not, retains an obscure sense
Of possible sublimity,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“... with autumn falling over everything;
The plush leaves the chattels in barrels
Of an obscure family being evicted
Into the way it was, and is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Coke and Blackstone hardly shed so much light into obscure spiritual places as the Hebrew prophets.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)