obscure
not clearly understood, or little known
Word origin: From Latin obscurus, dark or covered.
Obscure in a sentence
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The poet alluded to an obscure myth that few readers would recognize.
The poet drew on an obscure regional dialect that even specialists struggled to gloss.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “obscure” well
As an adjective, obscure means either hard to understand or little known and unimportant. As a verb it means to hide or make unclear, so context determines the sense.
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