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"word": "obscurable"
},
{
"word": "obscure honeyeater"
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"word": "obscureness"
}
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"ref": "1892, Denton Jaques Snider, Inferno, 1, 1-2 (originally by Dante Alighieri)",
"text": "I found myself in an obscure wood."
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 20:20:",
"text": "His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.",
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"ref": "1606, John Davies of Hereford, Bien Venu:",
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"ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:",
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{
"ref": "2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:",
"text": "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.",
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"ref": "2024 August 4, @rainbowresort_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-05:",
"text": "i need to be REALLY careful to not use any obscure words. otherwise my tweets might end up on a wiktionary page",
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muẓlim",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "مُظْلِم"
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "obskura"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "hämärä"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "obscur"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "bundovani",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "ბუნდოვანი"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "obskur"
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"word": "不明瞭"
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"word": "ស្រអាប់"
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"word": "ព្រឹលៗ"
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "애매한"
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
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"word": "нејасен"
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "obscuro"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "obscur"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "întunecos"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "tjómnyj",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "тёмный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "nejásnyj",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "нея́сный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "сму́тный"
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"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "mirk"
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"code": "es",
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "mörk"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "mờ mịt"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "dark, faint or indistinct",
"word": "tối tăm"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skrit",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "скрит"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nejasen",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "неясен"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "不顯眼的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bù xiǎnyǎn de",
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"word": "不显眼的"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"word": "不引人注意的"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "verborgen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "huomaamaton"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "piiloutunut"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "unbedeutend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "versteckt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "verborgen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "unsichtbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "schleierhaft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "unbekannt"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "rejtett"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nascosto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oscurato"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ukryty"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "mało znany"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "obscur"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "retras"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "ascuns"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrýtyj",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "скры́тый"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous",
"word": "mirk"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nerazbiraem",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "неразбираем"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "hämärä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "vaikeaselkoinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "sibyllin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "unverständlich"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "asaphḗs",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "ἀσαφής"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "homályos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
"word": "zavaros"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult to understand",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "difficult to understand",
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"code": "it",
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