Synonyms for opaque
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Dark
dark, thick, murky, unintelligible, obscure, muddy, cloudy, dense, incomprehensible, dull, foggy, hazy, indistinct, dim, misty
Other
adiaphanous, intransparent rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
Related words
- Word family
- opacify opaquen opaqueness opacity
- Phrases
- opaque box
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Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- dense Not a soul was to be seen because of a dense fog.
- cloudy I especially like cloudy skies, why? I don't know.
- murky Stefan dived and disappeared into the murky water.
- unintelligible Rodrigo is unintelligible in Berber pronunciation.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| opaque | steady | |
| dense | steady | |
| cloudy | steady | |
| murky | rising | |
| unintelligible | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- dim1
- 4 letters
- dark1, dull1, hazy2
- 5 letters
- thick1, dense1, muddy2, misty2, foggy2, murky2
- 6 letters
- cloudy2
- 7 letters
- obscure2
- 10 letters
- indistinct3
- 11 letters
- adiaphanous
- 13 letters
- intransparent
- 14 letters
- unintelligible6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hazy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- opaque
- Español
- opaco
- Deutsch
- lichtundurchlässig