English > opaque: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight. |
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Examples | - "opaque windows of the jail"
- "opaque to X-rays"
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Attribute of | opacity, opaqueness | The quality of being opaque to a degree |
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Narrower | cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid | (of liquids / liquids) clouded as with sediment |
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fogged, foggy | obscured by fog |
frosted | (of glass) having a roughened coating / coating resembling frost |
glaucous | Having a frosted look from a powdery coating / coating, as on plants |
lightproof, light-tight | not penetrable by light |
milky, milklike, whitish | resembling milk in color not clear |
semiopaque | partially opaque |
solid | Impenetrable for the eye |
See also | unclear | not clear to the mind |
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Opposite | clear | Allowing light to pass through |
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Spanish | opaca, opaco |
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Catalan | opac |
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Nouns | opacity, opaqueness | the quality of being opaque to a degree |
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opacity | the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation |