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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>obscure</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../O.html" title="O"/><link rel="previous" href="Objectionable-C.html" title="Objectionable-C"/><link rel="next" href="octal-forty.html" title="octal forty"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">obscure</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Objectionable-C.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">O</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="octal-forty.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="obscure"/><dt xmlns="" id="obscure"><b>obscure</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Used in an exaggeration of its normal meaning, to imply total
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incomprehensibility. “<span class="quote">The reason for that last crash is
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obscure.</span>” “<span class="quote">The
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">find</span>(1)</span>
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command's syntax is obscure!</span>” The phrase <span class="firstterm">moderately obscure</span> implies that something could
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be figured out but probably isn't worth the trouble. The construction
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<span class="firstterm">obscure in the extreme</span> is the
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