OPAQUE
Dictionary entry overview: What does opaque mean?
• OPAQUE (adjective)
The adjective OPAQUE has 2 senses:
1. not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
2. not clearly understood or expressed
Familiarity information: OPAQUE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OPAQUE (adjective)
Meaning:
Not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
Context examples:
opaque windows of the jail / opaque to X-rays
Similar:
glaucous (having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants)
cloudy; mirky; muddy; murky; turbid ((of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment)
fogged; foggy (obscured by fog)
frosted ((of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost)
solid (incapable of being seen through)
light-tight; lightproof (not penetrable by light)
milklike; milky; whitish (resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear)
semiopaque (partially opaque)
Also:
unclear (not clear to the mind)
Attribute:
opacity; opaqueness (the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light)
Antonym:
clear (free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass through)
Meaning:
Not clearly understood or expressed
Synonyms:
opaque; unintelligible
Similar:
incomprehensible; uncomprehensible (difficult to understand)
