English-Thai Dictionary

obscurity

N คน หรือ สิ่ง ที่ ไม่ เป็นที่รู้จัก  unknown celebrity kon-rue-sing-ti-mai-pen-ti-ru-jak

 

obscurity

N ความ ไม่ ชัดแจ้ง  ความ ไม่ กระจ่าง  ความคลุมเครือ  vagueness indistinctness clearness clarity kwam-mai-chad-jang

 

obscurity

N ความ ไม่ เป็นที่รู้จัก  ความ ไม่สำคัญ  insignificance unimportance fame kwam-mai-pen-ti-ru-jak

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OBSCURITY

Ob *scu "ri *ty, n. Etym: [L. obscuritas: cf. F. obscurité. ]

 

Defn: The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.

 

Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; gloom. See Darkness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

obscurity

ob scu ri ty |əbˈskyo͝oritē əbˈskjʊrədi | ▶noun ( pl. obscurities ) the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant: he is too good a player to slide into obscurity. • the quality of being difficult to understand: poems of impenetrable obscurity. • a thing that is unclear or difficult to understand: the obscurities in his poems and plays. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus ‘dark. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

obscurity

ob ¦scur |ity |əbˈskjʊərɪti | ▶noun ( pl. obscurities ) [ mass noun ] the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant: he is too good a player to slide into obscurity. • the quality of being difficult to understand: poems of impenetrable obscurity. • [ count noun ] a thing that is unclear or difficult to understand: the obscurities in his poems and plays. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus ‘dark ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

obscurity

obscurity noun 1 the novel plots Carlotta's rise from obscurity to stardom: insignificance, inconspicuousness, unimportance, anonymity; limbo, twilight, oblivion. ANTONYMS fame. 2 small-minded intellectuals who had accused him of obscurity: incomprehensibility, impenetrability, unintelligibility, opacity; abstruseness, arcaneness, esotericism. ANTONYMS clarity. 3 there may be obscurities but no answerless riddles: enigma, puzzle, mystery, ambiguity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

obscurity

obscurity noun 1 he brought the club back to the big time after years of obscurity: insignificance, inconspicuousness, unimportance, anonymity, lack of fame /renown /honour /recognition, non-recognition, ingloriousness, limbo, twilight, oblivion. ANTONYMS fame. 2 poems of impenetrable obscurity: incomprehensibility, impenetrability, unintelligibility, obscureness, complexity, intricacy, opacity, opaqueness, unclearness; abstruseness, reconditeness, arcaneness, deepness, esotericism. ANTONYMS clarity. 3 the obscurities in his poems and plays: enigma, puzzle, mystery, difficulty, problem, complication, intricacy, ambiguity; crux. 4 the brightness of the light on stage left the recesses of the wings in obscurity: darkness, blackness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, murk, murkiness, shadow, shadowiness; rare tenebrosity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

obscurity

ob scu ri ty /əbskjʊ́ ə rəti /→obscure 名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U 不明, 不詳 ; 無名, 人知れぬ状態 ▸ sink into obscurity 世に埋もれる ▸ die in obscurity 人知れず死ぬ ; 無名のまま朽 （く ） ち果てる .2 C U 難解さ, 理解できない個所 ▸ be lost in obscurity わけがわからなくなる ▸ unravel the obscurities 難解な部分を解明する .3 U ｟文 ｠暗さ .4 C 無名の人 .