OPAQUE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Opaque

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/oʊpˈeɪk/ Listen

adjective

Opaque adj.

Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.

Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. (Colloq.)

noun

Opaque n. That which is opaque; opacity.

See images of 'Opaque'

Etymology of 'Opaque'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Opaque" Quotes from Famous Books

... emanating from a gray sky; everywhere the same immobility, tired and frozen, with uncertainties of aspect derived from the night and from dreams. An opaque sky, which had a solid air and was made of accumulated, small, horizontal layers, as if one had painted it by superposing ...

— Ramuntcho • Pierre Loti

... in Grey and Green: The Ocean,' the composition is ugly, the sky opaque, the suggestion of sea leaden and without ...

— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler

... the direction he indicated; and there, even while he was speaking, we observed the approach of a cloud, or rather I should call it a dense mist, so completely without break of any sort did it occupy the whole horizon. It looked like an opaque mass of some substance, borne onward by some invisible power towards us. Van Graoul, whose equanimity nothing extraordinary could disturb, likened it to the wall of China painted black, and taking a ...

— Mark Seaworth • William H.G. Kingston

... the old sense? It hardly seems as if the young people of to-day can really understand the poetry of English domestic life, reading it, as they must, by a reflected illumination from the past. What would "Cotter's Saturday Night" have been, if Burns had written it by the opaque heat of a stove ...

— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom

... the keen air of the early morning, with the white frost crystallising the stones around them; in the glow of midday; and when the moon, hanging over the sharp-pointed hills, cast the valley into an opaque shade dark and fathomless as the ...

— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman

More quotes...