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opaque

Meaning

Not allowing light to pass through; not transmitting vision.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

The thick fog rolled in, completely opaque. I couldn't see the path ahead, or even my own feet. A wave of unease washed over me. The world was gone, swallowed by this impenetrable whiteness.

The thick fog rolled in, so opaque that the lighthouse beam vanished completely. We couldn't see the shore, not even a hand in front of our faces. The boat was lost in the swirling gray, and a cold fear tightened in my chest.

The thick fog rolled in, an opaque wall that swallowed the horizon. We couldn't see the path ahead, each step into the swirling grey felt uncertain, a blind gamble against an unseen obstacle.

My cat, Bartholomew, is a fluffy void. When he curls up on the sofa, he's like a black hole, completely opaque. You can't see through him, not even a tiny bit! It's like he's a fuzzy, purring shadow that swallowed all the light.

The grumpy badger, Bartholomew, painted his burrow door a thick, opaque black. Not even a sliver of sunlight dared to peek inside. He wanted absolute privacy for his secret operation: building a tiny hat for a particularly stubborn mushroom. Bartholomew believed a hat would improve its posture.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The old wooden door was completely opaque. I couldn't see anything through it, no matter how hard I squinted. It felt like a wall between me and whatever was on the other side, adding to the unsettling silence of the abandoned house.

The thick, grey fog had rolled in without warning, an opaque curtain separating us from the world. We couldn't see the ship's deck just feet away, let alone the distant shoreline. A gnawing unease settled in as the silence became absolute, the familiar surroundings completely gone.

The old tin roof, stained with rust and years of neglect, was completely opaque. I pressed my forehead against it, trying to catch a glimpse of the storm raging outside, but no light, no vision, no relief seeped through. Just the dull, muffled roar of the wind and rain.

My new curtains were supposed to be fancy, blackout ones. Instead, they're just… *opaque*. So opaque, in fact, I'm pretty sure they'd stop a ninja from seeing their own reflection. Honestly, I might need a flashlight to find my way out of the bedroom now.

My grandpa's "art" was truly something. He'd paint canvases so opaque you couldn't see the canvas itself, let alone any vision. He called it "existential dread in beige," but I suspect he just ran out of paint.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

The thick fog rolled in, an opaque blanket muffling the harbor lights. I strained to see the ferry, but it was lost in the dense, impenetrable air. Nothing got through that wall of gray; it was completely opaque, hiding everything.

The thick, opaque fog rolled in, erasing the familiar coastline. I couldn't see the lighthouse, couldn't even make out the buoy. A heavy blanket settled over everything, making the ocean feel both vast and claustrophobic, swallowing all hope of navigation.

The ancient tome, bound in thick, leathery hide, felt impossibly heavy. Its pages were not paper, but thin sheets of polished obsidian, completely opaque. No glimpse of what lay within was possible, only the weighty mystery of its sealed contents.

Bartholomew's magnificent, and frankly, quite alarming, velvet cape was utterly opaque. Not allowing even a sliver of light to pass through, it rendered him invisible to the sun, and more importantly, to his mother's disapproving gaze whenever he decided to wear it to the grocery store.

Bartholomew, a perpetually startled manatee, found his personal space invaded by a particularly robust, opaque fog rolling off his questionable tuna casserole. He blinked, the thick, soupy haze rendering his prize-winning porcelain collection entirely invisible. It was, he lamented, impossible to discern if the cat had finally achieved its lifelong ambition of ceramic destruction.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The fog was so dense, so completely opaque, that even the familiar porch light seemed a distant, ethereal ember. Visibility vanished; the world outside became an impenetrable void, a tangible barrier that stifled any sense of direction or reassurance.

The thick, viscous ink was completely opaque, obscuring the ancient script beneath. I pressed my eye to the glass vial, desperate to discern the faded symbols, but the darkness offered no ingress. Even the strongest lantern light couldn't penetrate its stubborn, unyielding core.

The thick, volcanic ash had settled, rendering the sky an opaque, suffocating blanket. We couldn't see the sun, nor the fractured ruins of what once was our vibrant metropolis. A gnawing dread intensified with every breath of the grit-filled air, a palpable absence of visibility.

The somnambulist, a veritable nocturne in motion, stumbled through the crepuscular gloom, his eyes, usually placid pools, now as opaque as a freshly sealed sarcophagus. He groped for the door, a palpable void in the otherwise dimly lit hallway, convinced it was a portal to a dimension of unlimited, but also opaque, snacks.

Barnaby's prized collection of artisanal pickles, ensconced in amphorae of obsidian glass, remained stubbornly opaque, thwarting all attempts to ascertain if the briny specimens within had achieved their intended state of pungent perfection. He suspected the fermentation was clandestine, a covert operation defying ocular inspection, much to his chagrin.

Difficulty

Basic — Common words most learners already know.

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