Definitions for opaque

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opaque o·paque

Spelling: [oh-peyk]

IPA: /oʊˈpeɪk/

Opaque is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in opaque (aeopqu).

Definitions for opaque

noun

1. something that is opaque.
2. Photography. a coloring matter, usually black or red, used to render part of a negative opaque.

adjective

1. not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
2. not transmitting radiation, sound, heat, etc.
3. not shining or bright; dark; dull.
4. hard to understand; not clear or lucid; obscure:
5. dull, stupid, or unintelligent.

verb (used with object)

1. Photography. to cover up blemishes on (a negative), especially for making a printing plate.
2. to cause to become opaque.

Origin of opaque

1375-1425; late Middle English opake Latin opācus shaded

Examples for opaque

After shaking, he pours the opaque, green liquid through a strainer and into a chilled champagne coupe.

Daylight was scarcely visible through the opaque window-panes.

But where is the opaque breath of the storm, where are the clouds?

As I organized my umbrella and shed my dripping coat, she sipped something golden and opaque from a tall pint glass.

Some days—and these were the most distressing of all—an opaque veil of smoke enveloped Paris.

The spores are broadly elliptic-fusiform, black, opaque, 107.

Jersey milk is thick and opaque, but Jersey cows produce much less of it—not enough to cover the coin.

Under Sepp Blatter, its interminable head, the body has been opaque and corrupt.

Political rhetoric, of course, is traditionally the most opaque of all.

Around us were opaque mountains of clouds with irradiated edges.