Obscure
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Obscure is dark, faint or indistinct; Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous; difficult to understand.
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Etymology
From French obscur, from Latin obscūrus (“dark, dusky, indistinct”), possibly, from ob (“over”) + -scurus (“covered”), from root scu (“cover”), seen also in scutum (“a shield”); see scutum, sky.
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Namesakes
- Jude the Obscure (1895), a novel by Thomas Hardy
- Thomas the Obscure (1941), a novel by Maurice Blanchot
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), a film by Luis Buñuel
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