opaque
Meanings
Plural: opaques
Adjective
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
- "opaque windows of the jail"
- "opaque to X-rays"
Adjective Satellite
- not clearly understood or expressed
Adj
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- Obtuse, stupid.
- Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
Noun
- An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
- Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
Verb
- To make, render (more) opaque.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque. Doublet of ubac.
Synonyms
adiaphanous, blur, cloud, nontransparent, opacous, opacular, opaque, thick, unintelligible
Antonyms
bright, brilliant, clear, oblique, obvious, see-through, translucent, transparent, turbid
Scrabble Score: 17
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