Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: obscurity
IPA transcription: [əbskj'ʊɹəti]
Pronunciations of obscurity
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness
    Meaning: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
  • Synonyms: obscurity
    Meaning: an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"
  • Synonyms: obscurity, obscureness
    Meaning: the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
Usage examples
  • Suffered to languish in obscurity
  • The white and black forms of two inquisitors appeared, emerging from the obscurity beyond.
  • "And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity.
  • The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
  • "And so the great Mr. Fothergill falls from power, and goes down into obscurity," said Madame Goesler.
  • It was in one of these moments of obscurity, that she observed a small and lambent flame, moving at some distance on the terrace.
  • Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud.
  • He had only to wish that there was no such person as myself in the world, and to curse the hour when his humanity led him to rescue me from my obscurity, and place me in his service.
  • Like a landscape melting into distance, they receive a thousand charms from their very obscurity, and the fancy delights to fill up their outlines with graces and excellences of its own creation.
  • In this obscurity he remained, with the character of a visionary and a man of unsettled mind, until the promulgation of the Rosicrucian philosophy in his part of Germany, toward the year 1607 or 1608.
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