"The day pulls to a close" is a barbarism, possibly entirely opaque if you fail to recognize it as a translation of "The day draws to a close."
Source: tatoeba (2040091)
Opaque
//əʊˈpeɪk//
Synonyms for "opaque" (124 found)
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impermeableimpervious to lightincomprehensibleindefiniteindeterminateindistinctineducableintransparentklutzylamebrainedlight tightlumpishmilklikemistymuddymurkymysteriousmystifyingnebulousnubilous
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Adjective(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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3 entriesRelated terms
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12 entrieshas context
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11 entriessimilar
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
97 translations across 35 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَكْمَد adj (hindering light to pass through)
Belarusian
1 entries- непразры́сты adj (hindering light to pass through)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ма́тов adj (neither reflecting nor emitting light)
- ма́тов adj (allowing little light to pass through)
- непрозрачен adj (hindering light to pass through)
- неясен adj (unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of)
Catalan
1 entries- opac adj (hindering light to pass through)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不透明 adj (hindering light to pass through)
Czech
1 entries- neprůhledný adj (hindering light to pass through)
Danish
2 entries- ugennemsigtig adj (hindering light to pass through)
- uigennemsigtig adj (hindering light to pass through)
Dutch
3 entries- ondoorschijnend adj (hindering light to pass through)
- ondoorzichtig adj (hindering light to pass through)
- opaak adj (hindering light to pass through)
Finnish
2 entries- läpikuultamaton adj (hindering light to pass through)
- läpinäkymätön adj (hindering light to pass through)
French
1 entries- opaque adj (hindering light to pass through)
Galician
1 entries- opaco adj (hindering light to pass through)
Georgian
2 entries- გაუმჭვირვალე adj (hindering light to pass through)
- შუქგაუმტარი adj (hindering light to pass through)
German
4 entries- begriffsstutzig adj (obtuse, stupid)
- blickdicht adj (hindering light to pass through)
- dunkel adj (neither reflecting nor emitting light)
- matt adj (neither reflecting nor emitting light)
Greek
1 entries- αδιαφανής adj (hindering light to pass through)
Hungarian
4 entries- bamba adj (obtuse, stupid)
- halvány adj (allowing little light to pass through)
- homályos adj (allowing little light to pass through)
- homályos adj (unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of)
Icelandic
1 entries- ógagnsær adj (hindering light to pass through)
Italian
4 entries- arcano adj (unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of)
- offuscato adj (allowing little light to pass through)
- opaca adj (hindering light to pass through)
- opaco adj (neither reflecting nor emitting light)
Japanese
1 entries- 不透明な adj (hindering light to pass through)
Korean
1 entries- 불투명(不透明)한 adj (hindering light to pass through)
Latvian
2 entries- necaurredzams adj (hindering light to pass through)
- necaurspīdīgs adj (hindering light to pass through)
Malay
1 entries- legap adj (hindering light to pass through)
Marathi
1 entries- अपारदर्शक adj (hindering light to pass through)
Māori
1 entries- puatakore adj (hindering light to pass through)
Norwegian
3 entries- opak adj (hindering light to pass through)
- ugjennomsiktig adj (hindering light to pass through)
- ugjennomskinnelig adj (hindering light to pass through)
Occitan
1 entries- opac adj (hindering light to pass through)
Polish
2 entries- nieprzejrzysty adj (hindering light to pass through)
- nieprzezroczysty adj (hindering light to pass through)
Portuguese
1 entries- opaco adj (hindering light to pass through)
Romanian
3 entries- netransparent adj (hindering light to pass through)
- obtuz adj (obtuse, stupid)
- opac adj (hindering light to pass through)
Russian
2 entries- ма́товый adj (hindering light to pass through)
- непрозра́чный adj (hindering light to pass through)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- neprogledno adj (hindering light to pass through)
- neprovidno adj (hindering light to pass through)
- neproziran adj (hindering light to pass through)
- neprozirno adj (hindering light to pass through)
Spanish
2 entries- opaco adj (hindering light to pass through)
- opacar verb (to render opaque)
Swedish
1 entries- ogenomskinlig adj (hindering light to pass through)
Thai
1 entries- ทึบแสง adj (hindering light to pass through)
Turkish
3 entries- donuk adj (hindering light to pass through)
- mat adj (hindering light to pass through)
- opak adj (hindering light to pass through)
Ukrainian
1 entries- непрозо́рий adj (hindering light to pass through)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Opaque? Not at all. Intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
Source: tatoeba (2099894)
You don't know what that small opaque bottle contains.
Source: tatoeba (2760307)
The truth is opaque and consequently imperceptible.
Source: tatoeba (2922443)
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