Obnubilated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪtɪd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Obnubilated is an adjective meaning (literally and figuratively) Obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
Meaning
(literally and figuratively) Obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of obnubilate
Example Sentences
For quotations using this term, see Citations:obnubilate.
Do not despair, Mr. Graves. Some day the clouds will roll away, and the sun, so long obnubilated, burst forth, for you, Mr. Graves, at last.
James…found his mind, perhaps, in that obnubilated state, which we generally experience when told any thing very much out of the common way, or of which we cannot well make the different facts tally.
Pipkin […] might possibly be acquainted with him, and so accost him by name; and it might turn out, if the undiscovered were but a bit of an egoist, he would indulge in some narration of “himself and times,” whereby his obnubilated patronymic might transpire to the fullest content.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adumbrated, befogged, clouded, foggy, occultive, shrouded.
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