opaque

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o‧paque/əʊˈpeɪk $ oʊ-/ adjective [USUALLY BEFORE NOUN]
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : opacus 'dark']
1. opaque glass or liquid is difficult to see through and often thick OPP transparent:
　 ▪ a shower with an opaque glass door

2. formal difficult to understand SYN obscure:
　 ▪ an opaque style of writing

—opaqueness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
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THESAURUS
difficult to see through
▪opaque difficult to see through :
　 ▪ The shower has an opaque glass door.

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
glass
▪ Behind the opaque glass screen Franklin D. Hauser mopped his sweating forehead.
▪ There was a separate shower to my immediate left with an opaque glass door, bathtub adjacent.
▪ Manescu had the impression the apparition behind the opaque glass wall was drinking from an absurdly shaped vessel.
▪ The opaque glasses used for making the beads provide us with a somewhat different level of inference.
▪ The bottle was made of opaque glass so that the contents could not be seen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a dry opaque writing style
▪ As the liquid cools it becomes cloudy and opaque.
▪ huge opaque clouds
▪ Keep herbs and spices in opaque glass bottles to protect them from sunlight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Actual blindness occurs only after years and years, and is caused by infestation of the cornea - which eventually becomes opaque.
▪ By late afternoon the sky was completely opaque and a thick gloom hung over the ocean as if night had fallen prematurely.
▪ Cats aren't so easy - more opaque, you could say.
▪ If I had my way it would be opaque Lycra tights every day of the week.
▪ It was a foggy, chilly day, without sunshine so the sea was murky and opaque.
▪ The windows are opaque, and the curtains you can see on the second floor are light gray.
▪ Virtually all the large bottles here are of thick, opaque blue glass.
▪ Wullschlager tackles the crucial but opaque question of Andersen's sexuality with tact, resisting psychoanalytic facilities.