What are some opposite words for opaque?

Antonyms for opaque
oʊˈpeɪkopaque

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Wiktionary3.3 / 3 votes

  1. opaqueverb

    Synonyms:
    cloud, blur

  2. opaqueadjective

    Neither reflecting nor emitting light.

    Synonyms:
    cloud, blur

  3. opaqueadjective

    Antonyms:
    see-through, transparent, translucent

  4. opaqueadjective

    Antonyms:
    brilliant, clear, obvious, bright

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. opaque

    Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.

    Compare synonyms for LIGHT.

    Antonyms:
    bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white

    Synonyms:
    black, dark, dim, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthy

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. opaqueadjective

    not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight

    "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

    Antonyms:
    hyaloid, lucid, comprehensible, transparent, semitransparent, crystalline, unclouded, limpid, pellucid, unfrosted, crystal clear, liquid, hyaline, translucent, clear, comprehendible

    Synonyms:
    unintelligible

  2. opaque, unintelligibleadjective

    not clearly understood or expressed

    Antonyms:
    crystal clear, unclouded, limpid, comprehensible, transparent, semitransparent, hyaloid, translucent, hyaline, clear, unfrosted, crystalline, lucid, comprehendible, liquid, pellucid

    Synonyms:
    unintelligible

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. opaqueadjective

    Synonyms:
    intransparent, obscure, unintelligible

How to use opaque in a sentence?

  1. Brock Silvers:

    The environment is now so opaque and difficult that even the iconic master-operator Jack Ma has paid a very dear price for missteps, zhang Yiming and Colin Huang are intensely aware of this example, and Zhang Yiming and Colin Huang desire to not follow in Ma's most recent footsteps probably played at least some role in Zhang Yiming and Colin Huang respective decisions to step down.

  2. Adam Schiff:

    It's tough though, particularly when we don't have great intelligence in places like Syria to identify what's happened to Americans who have gone overseas to fight, very opaque and difficult to track. That problem is magnified a hundred times in Europe, where people can travel freely with a passport.

  3. Fergus Ryan:

    The whole process is so opaque that it's difficult to know what is censored and what isn't censored.

  4. Christoph Wille:

    This process (of borrowing) is very opaque but the assumption is that they (Congo) get lots of loans from China and companies in the infrastructure sector.

  5. Stanley Rosen:

    China is very opaque when it comes to transparency, so it's always hard to know how accurate their reported statistical data is, and there seems to be little question that when COVID first broke out in Wuhan, and for a considerable time afterwards, the number of deaths from COVID was seriously underreported.

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