Adjective: opaque (opaquer,opaquest) ow'peyk
- Not transmitting light or other radiation; impenetrable to sight
"opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"
- Hard or impossible to understand
"The professor's opaque explanation left students confused";
- unintelligible
Derived forms: opaquer, opaquest
See also: cloudy, fogged, foggy, frosted, glaucous, incomprehensible, lightproof, light-tight, milklike, milky, mirky [archaic], muddy, murky, opacity, opaqueness, semiopaque, solid, turbid, unclear, uncomprehensible, whitish
Antonym: clear
Encyclopedia: Opaque