Crossword clues for opaque
opaque
- Dark film has length cut after Oscar
- Unfathomable over old man rather dismissing sexual attraction
- Not clear
- Not clearly expressed
- Not at all clear
- Not quite transparent
- Not at all transparent
- Not allowing light to pass through
- Tough to see through
- Opposite of "transparent"
- Obscure or dark
- Not sheer
- Like some lampshades
- Lacking clearness
- Impervious to light — hard to understand
- Impervious to light
- Hardly transparent
- Filmy & non-transparent
- Completely obscure
- Muddy
- Unclear
- Hard to understand
- Opposite of transparent
- Not easily understood
- Light-blocking
- Impossible to see through
- Clear as mud, so to speak
- Hard to grasp
- Hard to see through
- Murky
- Enigmatic work, equal tempered apart from fourth in scale
- Obscure work, one by that Parisian
- Obscure work - a strange hesitation to avoid it
- Not transparent
- Not translucent
- Impervious to sight
- Impenetrable work leads to awkward questions, upsetting editor
- Hard to understand ordinary old man quite without attraction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opaque \O*paque"\, a. [F., fr. L. opacus. Cf. Opacous.]
Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.
Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. [Colloq.]
Opaque \O*paque"\, n.
That which is opaque; opacity.
--Young.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., opake, from Latin opacus "shaded, in the shade, shady, dark, darkened, obscure," of unknown origin. Spelling influenced after c.1650 by French opaque (c.1500), from the Latin. Figurative use from 1761. Related: Opaquely; opaqueness.
Wiktionary
1 Neither reflecting nor emitting light. 2 Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent. 3 (context figuratively English) unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of 4 (context figuratively English) obtuse, stupid. 5 (context computing English) 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. n. 1 (context obsolete poetic English) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light. 2 Something which is opaque rather than translucent. v
(context transitive English) To make, render (more) opaque.
WordNet
adj. not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" [ant: clear]
not clearly understood or expressed [syn: unintelligible]
Wikipedia
Morten Aasdahl Eliassen (born 25 September 1976), also known as stage name Opaque or the alias Mae, is a Norwegian rapper from Furuset in Oslo.
He is signed to Tommy Tee's record label Tee Productions, and released the album Gourmet Garbage in 2001.
In 2011 he appeared under the alias Mae (Morten Aasdahl Eliassen) on Jesse Jones debut album 12 blokker, 1 vei inn.
Usage examples of "opaque".
The unpredictability of process did not make it acausal, only opaque before the fact.
Although the shrine was dark and fading sunlight had climbed halfway up the walls, laying a bronze sheen on the cloudily opaque torsoes of the gigantic soldiers, everything in the square apse shone with an intense particularity.
Very admirable, that, but her coppery skin and her creamy, high-necked gownleaving nothing but her hands uncovered, yet clinging and only just barely opaque, so that it hinted at everything and revealed nothingmarked her just as clearly of the first blood of Arad Doman.
Reuben, of the eighty-third level, Atomist, knew there was something wrong when the binoculars flashed and then went opaque.
The expectorated matter is at first whitish, opaque, and tenacious, mixed sometimes with a frothy mucus, requiring considerable coughing to loosen it and throw it off.
Behind his bed were two opaque cubes -- the wardrobe cubby and the shower-lavatory cube -- but when the hull was allowed to go transparent, these cubes were just dark blocks against the starfield all around and overhead.
He pulled his elasticized jeans above the hemline of the dress, revealing opaque support hose.
The pupils were black and bright as obsidian, the iris opaque with fury, the whites engorged with blood.
He turned slowly, the ergometer held gingerly between the two forefingers of each hand in order that the opaque material of the suit should not block off the telltale radiation.
At any rate, Fanchon was floating the leaves on the water, and why she wasted her time that way was similarly opaque.
For these perfectly supple beings rejoiced in executing aerial evolutions, flinging out wild rhythmical streamers, intertwining with one another in spirals, concentrating into opaque spheres, cubes, cones, and all sorts of fantastical volumes.
The small pointed face was all eyes staring at some dreadful prospect, the milky opaque skin which never tanned or freckled was grow ing more translucent.
The old man walked towards the beach, and leaned against the gunnel of the boat, and there he remained with his keen gray eye fixed upon the distance, which was now one opaque mass, except where the white foam of the waters gleamed through the darkness of the night!
She danced aside as she played, drifting in and out of the opaque steam, and behind the hanging shades, turning as she went.
Once our speed steadied, Jinny opaqued the windows, swiveled her seat to face me, and folded her arms.