Definitions for obscurity

obscurity ob·scu·ri·ty

Spelling: [uh b-skyoo r-i-tee]
IPA: /əbˈskyʊər ɪ ti/

Obscurity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 421 anagrams from letters in obscurity (bciorstuy).

Definitions for obscurity

noun

  1. the state or quality of being obscure.
  2. the condition of being unknown:
  3. uncertainty of meaning or expression; ambiguity.
  4. an unknown or unimportant person or thing.
  5. darkness; dimness; indistinctness.

Origin of obscurity

1470-80; late Middle English Middle French obscurite Latin obscūritās, equivalent to obscūr(us) obscure + -itās -ity

Examples for obscurity

obscurity of station or of birth has no tendency to prelude the favour of God.

obscurity seems to guarantee that our talents, our efforts, our lives, will be in some final way wasted.

That kind of smart person cannot countenance the idea of obscurity as a fate.

To some, obscurity itself is attractive, from the hope that worthiness is the cause of it.

Then they lose and return to obscurity, serving in state or local office.

And Gervaise carefully took another ten steps in the obscurity.

Her great distress was to realise that she was alone in the obscurity at such moments.

Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope.

Instead, they will be at best a stale and bitter punchline of our times and then fade, unloved, into obscurity.

He died in obscurity in Paris in 1792, never having another opportunity to command a fleet.

Word Value for obscurity
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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