EXPLANATIVE Antonyms

• causing confusion or disorientation

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• of an obscure nature

• having a secret or hidden meaning

• having a puzzling terseness

• not clear to the understanding

• resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought

• of an obscure nature

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• poorly stated or described

• not clear to the mind

• not easily deciphered

• poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise

• hard or impossible to understand

• not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished

• not clearly expressed or understood

• lacking clarity or distinctness