Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
Various Qualities of Style

571. Obscurity.

   NOUN:OBSCURITY (unintelligibility) [See Unintelligibility]; involution, crabbedness, confusion; hard words; ambiguity [See Equivocalness]; unintelligibility, unintelligibleness; vagueness [See Uncertainty], inexactness [See Error]; what d’ye call ’em (neologism) [See Neology]; darkness of meaning.
   ADJECTIVE:OBSCURE &c. n.; crabbed; involved, confused.
   QUOTATION:Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.—Macbeth