All 14 Uses of
obscure
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Sofya Ivanovna was the daughter of an obscure deacon, and was left from childhood an orphan without relations.†
Chpt 1
- The mother was sitting on a chair by the side of her daughter's invalid carriage, and two paces from her stood an old monk, not one of our monastery, but a visitor from an obscure religious house in the far north.†
Chpt 2
- They heard him with emotion, though many wondered at his words and found them obscure….†
Chpt 4
- There was something too mysterious, too subjective in these last words of his, perhaps obscure to himself, but yet torturing him.†
Chpt 5
- For Awhile A Very Obscure One And Ivan, on parting from Alyosha, went home to Fyodor Pavlovitch's house.†
Chpt 5
- Alyosha could not resist asking: "Father and teacher," he began with extreme emotion, "your words are too obscure….†
Chpt 6
- I will not, however, omit to mention something strange, which came for a time to the surface of Alyosha's mind at this fatal and obscure moment.†
Chpt 7
- She knew that His heart was open even to the simple, artless merrymaking of some obscure and unlearned people, who had warmly bidden Him to their poor wedding.†
Chpt 7
- But his chief trouble, I must explain however obscurely, lay in the fact that to have that sum he knew of, to have the right to take it, he must first restore Katerina Ivanovna's three thousand—if not, "I'm a common pickpocket, I'm a scoundrel, and I don't want to begin a new life as a scoundrel," Mitya decided.†
Chpt 8 *
- Zhutchka is lost in the mists of obscurity.†
Chpt 10
- It was so obscure and rhetorical that Grushenka put it down before she had read half, unable to make head or tail of it.†
Chpt 11
- It's dark and obscure, but intellectual.†
Chpt 11
- And obscure too.†
Chpt 12 *
- But there are others who accuse him: there are vague rumors of a question, of a suspicion, an obscure report, a feeling of expectation.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(obscure as in: it obscured my view) to block from view or make less visible or understandableeditor's notes: Although this meaning of obscure typically refers to seeing or understanding, it can also refer to situation where something makes something else harder to detect or as when a noise makes another noise difficult to hear. Similarly it can reference something overshadowing something else, as in "Her memory of her dog's death was obscured by her brother's death the next day."
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(obscure as in: the view or directions are obscure) not clearly seen, understood, or expressededitor's notes: Although this meaning of obscure typically refers to seeing or understanding, it can refer to difficulty with any type of detection as when something is hard to hear. It can also more specifically mean vague, or mysterious, or unknown by anyone. Much more rarely, it can mean secretive.