7 Letters
4 Consonants
3 Vowels
2 Syllables
Types Of Speech
You can use obscure as a adjective satellite or as a verb in a sentence.
About Obscure
A 2 syllables adjective satellite and 7 letters with the letters b, c, e, o, r, s, and u, 4 consonants, 3 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter c. Obscure starts with and ends with a vowel with the starting letters o, ob, obs, obsc, obscu, and the ending characters are e, re, ure, cure, scure, ..
Definition
Make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured"
Origin/Roots
French
School Grade
Obscure is set as a sat word that starts with o, ends with e, 2 syllables, 3 vowels and 7 letters.
Scrabble
Is obscure a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
Pig Latin
Obscure in Pig Latin is said as "obscureay or obscureway".
Unigram
o | b | s | c | u | r | e
Bigram
ob | bs | sc | cu | ur | re
Trigram
obs | bsc | scu | cur | ure
Quadrigram
obsc | bscu | scur | cure
Word Gram
Verb Examples
make obscure or unclear;
"The distinction was obscured"
make difficult to perceive by sight;
"The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake"
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;
"a hidden message";
"a veiled threat"
make unclear, indistinct, or blurred;
"Her remarks confused the debate";
"Their words obnubilate their intentions"
make less visible or unclear;
"The stars are obscured by the clouds"
Adjective Satellite Examples
not clearly understood or expressed;
"an obscure turn of phrase";
"an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard;
"their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin;
"vague...for
marked by difficulty of style or expression;
"much that was dark is now quite clear to me";
"those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
remote and separate physically or socially;
"existed over the centuries as a world apart";
"preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson;
"tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization";
"an obscure village"
not drawing attention;
"an unnoticeable cigarette burn on the carpet";
"an obscure flaw"
not famous or acclaimed;
"an obscure family";
"unsung heroes of the war"
difficult to find;
"hidden valleys";
"a hidden cave";
"an obscure retreat"

Synonyms (Cognitive Synonyms) For "Obscure"

There are 721 synonyms available. These are cognitive relationship words which is to say they have a similar meaning, mean the same thing, or have close definition and relationship to obscure.

SynonymDefinition
Abasecause to feel shame
hurt the pride of
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
Abstrusedifficult to penetrate
incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
"the professor''s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"
"a deep metaphysical theory"
"some recondite problem in historiography"
Adiaphanous
Adumbrategive to understand
"I insinuated that I did not like his wife"
Affectthe conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
Aleatoric
Aleatorydependent on chance
"the aleatory element in life"
ALIRa terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to reinstitute Hutu control
"in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists"
Alterremove the ovaries of
"Is your cat spayed?"
Ambiguoushaving more than one possible meaning
"ambiguous words"
"frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"

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Anagrams

There are 2 anagrams from obscure.

Anagram Definition
Bucerostype genus of the family Bucerotidae
Obscuremake obscure or unclear
"The distinction was obscured"

View English words with the unique letters used in obscure. Words With The Letters Bceorsu

Hypernyms

Obscure has 3 hypernyms.

Word Definition
Alterremove the ovaries of
"Is your cat spayed?"
Changethe action of changing something
"the change of government had no impact on the economy"
"his change on abortion cost him the election"
Modifycause to change
make different
cause a transformation
"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"
"The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

Hyponyms

There are 5 hyponyms for obscure

Word Definition
Eclipseone celestial body obscures another
Mystifymake mysterious;
"mystify the story"
Shadeprotective covering that protects something from direct sunlight;
"they used umbrellas as shades";
"as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"
Shade Off
Shadowrefuge from danger or observation;
"he felt secure in his father''s shadow"

The word games Words With Friends, 4pics1Word, Word Chums, and Jumble which is by far one of the most successful of the word games. Jumble was created in 1954 - below, you will find the most unscrambled letters for each descramble word game that others have solved or decoded to make the word obscure.

Is obscure a scrabble word or can you use obscure in Words With Friends? The probability of getting this word in scrabble is 1 out of every 434233 games and in Words With Friends it's 1 out of every 425548 games. This 7 letter 11 point scrabble word can be rearranged 5,040 ways. What other words can be made with the letters b, c, e, o, r, s, and u? There's 2 with 9 letters or less with the letters b, c, e, o, r, s, and u. Here is a list of 2 to try to get you more points.

WordScrabbleWords With FriendsWord Chums4Pics1WordJumble
Buceros (7 letters) 11 14 borscue
Obscure (7 letters) 11 14 borscue





     

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