1. opaque - Noun
2. opaque - Adjective
3. opaque - Verb
4. opaque - Adjective Satellite
Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.
Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
That which is opaque; opacity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque. Christopher Hitchens
Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves. Jacques Maritain
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit. Peter Medawar
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. Michel de Montaigne
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. Jim Bishop