obscure

Definitions of obscure in various dictionaries:

verb - make less visible or unclear

verb - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

verb - make obscure or unclear

verb - reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

verb - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

adj - not clearly understood or expressed

adj - marked by difficulty of style or expression

adj - difficult to find

adj - not famous or acclaimed

adj - not drawing attention

adj - remote and separate physically or socially

Deficient in light; dark.

So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct.

Indistinctly heard; faint.

Linguistics.

Far from centers of human population: an obscure village.

Out of sight; hidden: an obscure retreat.

Not readily noticed or seen; inconspicuous: an obscure flaw.

Of undistinguished or humble station or reputation: an obscure poet; an obscure family.

Not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague: “an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit” (Anatole Broyard).

To conceal in obscurity; hide: “Unlike the origins of most nations, America’s origins are not obscured in the mists of time” (National Review).

To reduce (a vowel) to the neutral sound represented by schwa (N).

adj - dark or indistinct