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opaque
Part of speech: AdjectiveNot allowing light to pass through; not transparent; having no luster or brightness: said of some colors.
Part of speech: NounThat which will not admit light through.
Part of speech: AdverbOpaquely.
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "opaque":- Being also fluid, and in perpetual agitation, its parts are constantly mixed together; so that instead of its heat being all accumulated in its surface, as in the case of a solid, opaque body, it is diffused through its whole mass. - "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson.
- A moon, opaque as a scarlet wafer, seemed to be pasted at a spot that could be either river or sky. - "Out of the Air", Inez Haynes Irwin.
- The darkness became less opaque, the water smoother. - "The Man Who Rocked the Earth", Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood.