opaque

/ou'peik/

Thân thiện

The teacher held up an opaque piece of plastic to the light.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not clearly understood or expressed: Difficult to comprehend; lacking clarity or transparency in meaning or intent.
   • Not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight: Describing a material or substance that light cannot pass through, making it impossible to see through.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The professor's explanation was so opaque that none of the students understood the concept. (Meaning: not clearly understood)
  • The bathroom window was made of opaque glass to ensure privacy. (Meaning: not transmitting light)
  • The company's financial reports were deliberately opaque, hiding its true losses. (Meaning: not clearly expressed)

Advanced Usage

• "opaque to [something]": Impenetrable or not allowing the passage of a specific form of energy or information.
  • The material is opaque to ultraviolet rays, providing excellent sun protection.
  • His technical jargon was completely opaque to the general audience.

Variants and Related Words

• Opacity (n): The quality or state of being opaque.
  • The opacity of the fog made driving dangerous.
• Opaqueness (n): Another term for the state of being opaque (less common than 'opacity').
  • The opaqueness of the legal document frustrated everyone.

Synonyms

• Unclear: Not easy to understand.
• Cloudy: Not transparent; murky.
• Impenetrable: Impossible to pass through or understand.

Antonyms

• Transparent: Allowing light to pass through so objects can be distinctly seen; easy to perceive or understand.
• Clear: Easy to perceive, understand, or interpret.
• Lucidity: Clearness of thought or style.

Related Phrases

• Linguistic opacity: A term in linguistics referring to parts of a language that are not phonetically transparent or are difficult for learners to analyze.
  • The irregular verb forms are a source of linguistic opacity for new students.
• Opaque projector: A device that projects images of opaque materials (like book pages) onto a screen.
  • The teacher used an opaque projector to show illustrations from the textbook.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not clearly understood or expressed
2. not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
   • opaque windows of the jail
   • opaque to X-rays

Từ đồng nghĩa

• unintelligible