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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 6:49:32 GMT
What would you say if something is not obvious? Disobvious? Nonobvious? Anything completely different?
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Post by charliebrown on Jun 11, 2013 8:30:31 GMT
Oscure? That's the first word that I can think of. But I'm not a native speaker.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 11, 2013 8:34:32 GMT
Non-obvious and obscure both sound like good options.
But I think it depends in what way it's not obvious - it could be confusing, subtle, hidden, ambiguous, vague, secret, ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 11, 2013 8:51:57 GMT
There could be better words, depending on circumstances, but my first thought was also "obscure".
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Post by JoeP on Jun 11, 2013 8:58:18 GMT
Surprisingly, it isn't obvious what the opposite of obvious is.
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Post by tangent on Jun 11, 2013 9:02:57 GMT
Uncertain is another possibility.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 11, 2013 20:28:04 GMT
Obscure was what I thought up right away, but I agree it would depend a bit on context as well.
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Post by Moose on Jun 11, 2013 20:55:21 GMT
Hmm I am not sure that there IS an opposite. Obscure means something slightly different.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 11, 2013 21:03:17 GMT
Isn't it obvious?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 11, 2013 21:29:05 GMT
Hmm I am not sure that there IS an opposite. Obscure means something slightly different. No! "Similar" means something slightly different! *runs away*
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Post by JoeP on Jun 11, 2013 21:32:09 GMT
Bye, Colin
*waves*
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Post by jayme on Jun 11, 2013 22:59:34 GMT
The first word I thought of was "obscure", also. But it would indeed depend on the context.
I just looked it up and got: ambiguous, indefinite, obscure, unclear, vague.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 8:00:16 GMT
We were talking about that in Linguistics yesterday and the lecturer was considering word with obvious, like disobvious. The only one we actually found in a corpus was non-obvious I think.
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Post by Miisa on Jun 12, 2013 8:10:48 GMT
I just looked it up and got: ambiguous, indefinite, obscure, unclear, vague. And inconspicuous. answers.com
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Post by tangent on Jun 12, 2013 9:07:18 GMT
I think non-obvious is the only true antonym.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 12, 2013 9:12:06 GMT
15 posts and we're still on topic?
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Post by Mari on Jun 12, 2013 16:06:05 GMT
With that post not any more, but that's not too obvious.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 12, 2013 16:21:22 GMT
It's raining here.
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Post by Miisa on Jun 12, 2013 16:25:27 GMT
We just had a miniature thunderstorm. A single rumble.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 12, 2013 16:27:39 GMT
Bolt of lightning? Anyone smoted?
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Post by Miisa on Jun 12, 2013 16:46:49 GMT
No, wait it's back now. I think it heard me call it small.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 12, 2013 19:31:11 GMT
Now you've made it angry ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 12, 2013 20:43:40 GMT
Does it have negative Karma?
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Post by bill on Jun 15, 2013 19:12:18 GMT
It is unobvious. Simple.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 15, 2013 20:14:32 GMT
I would have said that unobvious was a neutral expression, rather than the opposite.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 15, 2013 20:16:21 GMT
Thesaurus.com claims...
Antonyms: ambiguous, indefinite, obscure, unclear, vague
I think it's still linked to context.
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Post by bill on Jun 15, 2013 21:31:40 GMT
No seriously the antonym of obvious is unobvious. Clearly there are alternative antonyms but unobvious is the simplest and clearest.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 15, 2013 22:46:06 GMT
I meant it's not the opposite in the same way that "Not up" is not the same as "Down".
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Post by ceptimus on Aug 4, 2019 15:38:13 GMT
Peanuts strip from July 6 1974. I have a set of Peanuts books somewhere, and I always remembered this one.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 4, 2019 17:30:22 GMT
Ambiguous.
That should be obvious.
Or, it could just be vague or unclear.
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