Obscurely

Definition: Obscurely

Obscurely

Adverb

1. In an obscure manner; "this work is obscurely written".

Date "obscurely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: Obscurely

English words defined with "obscurely": Cloudily, Confusely ♦ Deafly, Delphic ♦ Foggily ♦ guessing game ♦ Muddily ♦ oracular ♦ Subobscurely ♦ unknown. (references)

Etymologies containing "obscurely": Subobscurely. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Lives obscurely great : historical essays on women of New South Wales (reference) Somewhere Obscurely (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Abraham Lincoln	Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	On the 18th of June, 1815, that profound soul masked in marble, shone obscurely forth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Obscurely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obscurely" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	67	40,952

Language		Translations for "obscurely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		阴暗地. (various references)

Czech		nezřetelnì, nejasnì (faintly, hazily). (various references)

German		unklar (blurred, cloudy, doubtful, equivocal, equivocally, foggy, hazy, incoherent, indefinite, indefinitely, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinctly, inexplicit, misty, murky, nebulous, nondistinctive, obscure, opaque, sketchy, unclarified, unclear, vague, woolly), undeutlich (blurred, dimly, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, inarticulately, indefinite, indefinitely, indistinct, indistinctly, indistinguishable, muddled, mumblingly, obscure, slurred, unarticulate, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague), schwach (brittle, dim, dimly, docile, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, flimsily, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, infirm, infirmly, lame, languid, light, low, poor, sinewed, slack, slender, slight, slightly, soft, thinly, uncertain, unsound, weak, weakly, wishy washy), dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, lightless, murky, obscure, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely). (various references)

Italian		oscuramente. (various references)

Korean		어둡게 (Darkly). (various references)

Pig Latin		obscurelyay

Romanian		obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), neinteligibil, neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, vague, vaguely), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Russian		в безвестности. (various references)

Spanish		umbrio (dark, obscure, opaque, recondite). (various references)

Thai		อย่างมืดมัว. (various references)

Ukranian		темно, неясно (ambiguously, darkly, thick, vaguely), невідомо, незрозуміло, безвісно, похмуро (darkly, gloomily, gravely, mournfully, scowlingly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Obscurely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boscoreale. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obscurely" (pronounced 'Ob*scure"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-l-o-r-s-u-y"
	-1 letter: crousely.
	-2 letters: bescour, boucles, burleys, closure, colures, corbels, elusory, obscure, roubles, soberly.
	-3 letters: beryls, blouse, blousy, bluesy, blueys, boucle, boules, bourse, burley, buyers, ceorls, cerous, closer, clours, cobles, coleus, colure, corbel, course, cresol, cresyl, crouse, cubers, lucres, obelus, oscule, rebuys, robles, rouble, rubles, sorely, source, sourly, surely, ulcers.
	-4 letters: beryl, blocs, bluer, blues, bluey.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-l-o-r-s-u-y"
	+3 letters: cumbersomely.
	+4 letters: commensurably, obstructively.
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