OPAQUE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for OPAQUE?

Need another word that means the same as “opaque”? Find 50 synonyms and 30 related words for “opaque” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Opaque” are: unintelligible, cloudy, filmy, blurred, hazy, misty, dirty, dingy, muddy, muddied, grimy, obscure, unclear, dense, uncertain, indeterminate, mysterious, puzzling, perplexing, baffling, mystifying, confusing, enigmatic, inexplicable, unexplained, concealed, hidden, unfathomable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, vague, ambiguous, delphic, indefinite, indistinct, foggy, nebulous, equivocal, doubtful, dubious, oblique, elliptical, oracular, cryptic, deep, abstruse, recondite, arcane, esoteric, recherché

Opaque as an Adjective

Definitions of "Opaque" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “opaque” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Not able to be seen through; not transparent.
• (especially of language) hard or impossible to understand.
• Not clearly understood or expressed.
• Hard or impossible to understand.
• Not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight.

Synonyms of "Opaque" as an adjective (50 Words)

abstruse	Difficult to understand; obscure. The professor s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them.
ambiguous	Having more than one possible meaning. An ambiguous situation with no frame of reference.
arcane	Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge. The arcane science of dowsing.
baffling	Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe. A baffling problem.
blurred	Indistinct or hazy in outline. The blurred aims of the group.
cloudy	Full of or covered with clouds. She stared at him her eyes cloudy.
concealed	Not accessible to view. Concealed or hidden damage.
confusing	Bewildering or perplexing. A confusing jumble of road signs.
cryptic	(of a crossword) having difficult clues which indicate the solutions indirectly. Cryptic plumage is thought to minimize predation.
deep	Relatively deep or strong affecting one deeply. Waist deep.
delphic	Obscurely prophetic.
dense	Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Dense smoke.
dingy	Causing dejection. Dingy linen.
doubtful	Not established as genuine or acceptable. They were doubtful that the cord would hold.
dubious	Hesitating or doubting. Timeshare has been brought into disrepute by dubious sales methods.
elliptical	(of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand. Elliptical colloquial exchanges.
enigmatic	Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought. I didn t grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later.
equivocal	Uncertain or questionable in nature. An equivocal response to an embarrassing question.
esoteric	Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle. A compilation of esoteric philosophical theories.
filmy	So thin as to transmit light. Filmy wings of a moth.
foggy	Indistinct or hazy in outline. She was foggy with sleep.
grimy	Covered with or characterized by grime. The grimy industrial city.
hazy	Indistinct or hazy in outline. The picture we have of him is extremely hazy.
hidden	Kept out of sight; concealed. Hidden valleys.
impenetrable	Impossible to pass through or enter. An impenetrable fortress.
incomprehensible	Incapable of being explained or accounted for. A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office.
indefinite	Not clearly expressed or defined; vague. Were indefinite about their plans.
indeterminate	Not exactly known, established, or defined. The date of manufacture is indeterminate.
indistinct	Not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand. Only indistinct notions of what to do.
inexplicable	Incapable of being explained or accounted for. For some inexplicable reason her mind went completely blank.
misty	(of a colour) not bright; soft. A misty pink.
muddied	(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear. The muddied grey of the sea.
muddy	Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination. The original colours were blurred into muddy pink and yellow.
mysterious	Of an obscure nature- Rachel. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life.
mystifying	Of an obscure nature. Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands.
nebulous	Lacking definite form or limits. A giant nebulous glow.
oblique	Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; slanting. He issued an oblique attack on the President.
obscure	Not drawing attention. A relatively obscure actor.
oracular	Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought. He holds forth in oracular fashion.
perplexing	Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity. Perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it.
puzzling	Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity. Only one very puzzling question remains unanswered.
recherché	Lavishly elegant and refined.
recondite	Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge. Some recondite problem in historiography.
uncertain	Ambiguous (especially in the negative. The issue is uncertain.
unclear	Having or feeling doubt or confusion. Their future remains unclear.
unexplained	Not accounted for or attributable to an identified cause. Cot death is still an unexplained phenomenon.
unfathomable	(of water or a natural feature) impossible to measure the extent of. Mountains of unfathomable scale.
unintelligible	Poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise. Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans.
vague	Not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished. Saw a vague outline of a building through the fog.

Usage Examples of "Opaque" as an adjective

• Bottles filled with a pale opaque liquid.
• Opaque windows of the jail.
• Technical jargon that was opaque to her.
• Opaque to X-rays.

Associations of "Opaque" (30 Words)

ambiguous	Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead. The polling had a complex and equivocal or ambiguous message for potential female candidates.
blur	Make unclear indistinct or blurred. In front of him the page blurred.
blurred	Unclear in form or expression. The blurred distinctions between childhood and adulthood.
blurry	Unable to perceive clear or sharp images. Their eyes were blurry with tears.
cloudy	(of liquids) clouded as with sediment. The pond water is slightly cloudy.
disjointed	Separated at the joint. Piecing together disjointed fragments of information.
disordered	Lacking orderly continuity. The small disordered room.
faint	Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; feeble. Faint heart ne er won fair lady.
foggy	Unable to think clearly; confused. A dark and foggy night.
garbled	(of a message, sound, or transmission) confused and distorted; unclear. I got a garbled set of directions.
hazy	Indistinct or hazy in outline. Hazy memories.
incoherent	Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently. A turgid incoherent presentation.
inconspicuous	Not prominent or readily noticeable. He pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole.
indefinite	Vague or not clearly defined or stated. Were indefinite about their plans.
indistinct	Not clear or sharply defined. An indistinct memory.
irrational	Of a number quantity or expression not expressible as a ratio of two integers and having an infinite and non recurring expansion when expressed as a decimal Examples of irrational numbers are the number and the square root of 2. Irrational animals.
lightproof	Not penetrable by light. A lightproof envelope.
misty	(of a person’s eyes) full of tears so as to blur the vision. A few misty memories.
murkiness	An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.
murky	(of liquids) clouded as with sediment. Murky rooms lit by smoke blackened lamps.
nebulous	Lacking definite form or limits. Nebulous reasons.
obscure	Make obscure or unclear. An impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit.
opaqueness	The quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light.
translucent	Allowing light to pass through diffusely. Her beautiful translucent skin.
turbid	(of liquids) clouded as with sediment. The turbid estuary.
unclear	Not easy to see, hear, or understand. Their future remains unclear.
unintelligible	Poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise. Unintelligible speech.
unnoticeable	Not drawing attention. Her clothes were simple and unnoticeable.
unreasonable	Beyond normal limits. Unreasonable demands.
vague	Not clearly expressed or understood. A vague uneasiness.