Obscurist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who creates ambiguous works.
"Some of the dramatist's obituaries treated him as an intellectual obscurist who never quite broke through to the general public; but his plays for ITV in the 1960s were seen by dozens of millions, part of the democratisation of drama that the new medium achieved."
Example
More examples"Some of the dramatist's obituaries treated him as an intellectual obscurist who never quite broke through to the general public; but his plays for ITV in the 1960s were seen by dozens of millions, part of the democratisation of drama that the new medium achieved."
Etymology
From obscure + -ist.
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