": an elaborate especially melodic part accompanying a solo or principal melody and usually played by a single instrument":[
"a song with violin obbligato"
],
": not to be omitted : obligatory":[
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
],
"\u2014 compare ad libitum":[
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"with the babble of the brook as an obbligato , we enjoyed our picnic",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The other was the whole first section of the fast movement, a solo in F major with obbligato flute, in which Florestan recalls happier days with Leonore at his side. \u2014 Will Crutchfield, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As an obbligato of protest continued behind Wilson, Dylan, accepting Wilson\u2019s advice, sang the insert. \u2014 Mick Stevens, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The long orchestral introduction left no doubt as to where composer Stephenson\u2019s interests lay, the work\u2019s first two movements amounting to symphonic statements with bass trombone obbligato . \u2014 Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com , 14 June 2019",
"The aria is enhanced by trumpet and oboe obbligatos , which were handled deftly by trumpeter Steve Marquardt and oboist Debra Nagy. \u2014 Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com , 16 Oct. 2017",
"The orchestra's alert accompaniment was at one with the pianist's purposes, as was Stefan Ragnar Hoskuldsson's dulcet flute obbligato in the opening movement. \u2014 John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com , 9 June 2017"
"borrowed from Italian, \"obligatory, essential to a musical composition,\" from past participle of obbligare \"to require (someone to do something), oblige,\" going back to Latin oblig\u0101re \u2014 more at oblige":"Adjective",
"Real Madrid beat Liverpool, 1-0, on Saturday in Paris with a performance of ruthless efficiency, of meticulous organization, of clinical obduracy . \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"In mid-March, Gotabaya Rajapaksa decided to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a reversal of course after his earlier obduracy against asking for help. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The rise of the Delta variant and the obduracy of vaccination resisters altered the landscape of the pandemic in just the last few months. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Myanmar is also being consumed by the coronavirus, a health disaster that has been exacerbated by the junta\u2019s obduracy . \u2014 New York Times , 1 Aug. 2021",
"Myanmar is also being consumed by the coronavirus, a health disaster that has been exacerbated by the junta\u2019s obduracy . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 Aug. 2021",
"But money, national pride and political obduracy are also at play. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The damage already done by Mr. Trump\u2019s obduracy could be lasting. \u2014 Andrew Higgins, New York Times , 11 Nov. 2020",
"The elections have shown that in spite of the Communist Party\u2019s obduracy and the economic harm that the protests have caused, Hong Kongers still have a strong appetite for democracy. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Nov. 2019"
"the obdurate refusal of the crotchety old man to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the act has been tied up in the Senate, due to the obdurate opposition of the entire GOP caucus and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.). \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Those are just the most obdurate employers, says David Woods, the union\u2019s secretary-treasurer. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 12 Jan. 2022",
"She was largely paralyzed from the neck down but just as obdurate as ever, wanting Sri to be the one to feed her, administer her fentanyl patch, bathe her and change her diaper, even though Sri had hired a home health aide to help. \u2014 Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"When team members or individual personalities try to be obdurate and disturb the team conversation, the team coach will need to maintain composure under such circumstances. \u2014 Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Ink and paint veer between obdurate opacity and delicate transparency. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
"The chorus sings of the Plague of Thebes over five darkly screaming chords in the key of B-flat minor, with an obdurate bass line grating against the upper harmonies. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 21 June 2021",
"By the summer of 1776, all but the most obdurate loyalists on the American continent knew that all-out war between Britain and the American Colonies had arrived. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2021",
"France\u2019s defense is stolid and obdurate and miserly. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin obd\u016br\u0101tus, going back to Latin, past participle of obd\u016br\u0101re \"to harden, be persistent, hold out,\" from ob-, perfective prefix + d\u016br\u0101re \"to harden, hold out, endure\" \u2014 more at ob- , during":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obdurate inflexible , obdurate , adamant mean unwilling to alter a predetermined course or purpose. inflexible implies rigid adherence or even servile conformity to principle. inflexible in their demands obdurate stresses hardness of heart and insensitivity to appeals for mercy or the influence of divine grace. obdurate in his refusal to grant clemency adamant implies utter immovability in the face of all temptation or entreaty. adamant that the work should continue",
"the obdurate refusal of the crotchety old man to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the act has been tied up in the Senate, due to the obdurate opposition of the entire GOP caucus and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.). \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Those are just the most obdurate employers, says David Woods, the union\u2019s secretary-treasurer. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 12 Jan. 2022",
"She was largely paralyzed from the neck down but just as obdurate as ever, wanting Sri to be the one to feed her, administer her fentanyl patch, bathe her and change her diaper, even though Sri had hired a home health aide to help. \u2014 Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"When team members or individual personalities try to be obdurate and disturb the team conversation, the team coach will need to maintain composure under such circumstances. \u2014 Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Ink and paint veer between obdurate opacity and delicate transparency. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
"The chorus sings of the Plague of Thebes over five darkly screaming chords in the key of B-flat minor, with an obdurate bass line grating against the upper harmonies. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 21 June 2021",
"By the summer of 1776, all but the most obdurate loyalists on the American continent knew that all-out war between Britain and the American Colonies had arrived. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2021",
"France\u2019s defense is stolid and obdurate and miserly. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin obd\u016br\u0101tus, going back to Latin, past participle of obd\u016br\u0101re \"to harden, be persistent, hold out,\" from ob-, perfective prefix + d\u016br\u0101re \"to harden, hold out, endure\" \u2014 more at ob- , during":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obdurate inflexible , obdurate , adamant mean unwilling to alter a predetermined course or purpose. inflexible implies rigid adherence or even servile conformity to principle. inflexible in their demands obdurate stresses hardness of heart and insensitivity to appeals for mercy or the influence of divine grace. obdurate in his refusal to grant clemency adamant implies utter immovability in the face of all temptation or entreaty. adamant that the work should continue",
"Said trials use chemicals to manipulate human emotions and behavior: love and fear, honesty and obedience . \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"Boards exercise key legal duties of care, loyalty, and obedience in order to serve the interests of investors. \u2014 Amy Glynn, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"Smaller than collies, these adorable fluffballs hold their own in herding, agility and obedience trials. \u2014 Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"At the unit's garrison on the Danube River in the capital Budapest, Logan receives daily socialization and obedience exercises, and is trained to recognize the smell of 25 different explosive substances. \u2014 Justin Spike, ajc , 14 May 2022",
"Since the first centuries of Christianity, communion has been accessible only to those believers living under the authority of their bishops and in obedience to Catholic doctrine. \u2014 J.d. Flynn, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"Defiance requires extraordinary courage; obedience merely requires default behavior. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The prudish Thunberg looked upon the Japanese\u2019s obedience to superiors with envy. \u2014 Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
"One belongs to Thomas Hobbes (1588\u20131679), who saw unconditional obedience to an all-powerful state, a leviathan, as the only path to security and political stability. \u2014 Joseph Loconte, National Review , 2 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin oboedientia \"act of obeying\" (Medieval Latin also, \"sphere of jurisdiction\"), noun derivative of oboedient-, oboedient obedient":""
": submissive to the restraint or command of authority : willing to obey":[
"an obedient child",
"an obedient dog",
"obedient to those whom he feared",
"\u2014 A. N. Wilson"
]
},
"examples":[
"that boy is so obedient that he does everything the first time he is asked",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sissi is well-known to European audiences thanks to a film trilogy in which Romy Schneider plays the empress as a young, obedient monarch in a kitschy, folkloric-style setting. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"They were taught to be obedient and submissive, even as they were abused. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Being obedient , hitting the familiar beats of an A-list career in the 2020s, has made Mira a wealthy and in-demand person. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"Therefore make rational answers and be obedient , in the Name of the Lord. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"These pups are obedient , outgoing, and affectionate. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022",
"Naomi was a young lady who was so obedient , very Southern, very respectful. \u2014 Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"When protein finally came to Allen\u2019s party, as the salmon returned in June to Suslota Lake in the Mentasta Mountains, Allen walked away from them, obedient to his task and faithful that more food would appear in the unknown ahead. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Historians who had previously been obedient communists felt emboldened to come out in their true colors. \u2014 Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin oboedient-, oboediens, from present participle of oboed\u012bre \"to follow the commands of, submit to\" \u2014 more at obey":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obedient obedient , docile , tractable , amenable mean submissive to the will of another. obedient implies compliance with the demands or requests of one in authority. obedient to the government docile implies a predisposition to submit readily to control or guidance. a docile child tractable suggests having a character that permits easy handling or managing. tractable animals amenable suggests a willingness to yield or cooperate because of a desire to be agreeable or because of a natural open-mindedness. amenable to new ideas",
"the basset hound was so obese that its stomach touched the floor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"However, Brawley noted, the data are weaker for people who are obese but have lower BMIs. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 8 June 2022",
"The film centers on a severely obese and reclusive teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Greene once tweeted that the coronavirus was not dangerous for people younger than 65 who were not obese and that vaccines should not be required. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Bariatric surgery may help the growing share of the global population that is obese to avoid dangerous complications of a condition known as fatty-liver disease, according to a new study. \u2014 Betsy Mckay, WSJ , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Among people who died from COVID-19, 46% were obese and 27% were overweight. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 5 Nov. 2021",
"In late July, Greene was hit with a 12-hour ban after erroneously tweeting the coronavirus was not dangerous for young people who were not obese . \u2014 Tommy Beer, Forbes , 14 Oct. 2021",
"American Indian and Alaska Native adults are 50% more likely to be obese and 30% more likely to suffer from hypertension compared to white Americans. \u2014 Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, The Conversation , 27 May 2021",
"In 2005, a CDC and National Cancer Institute research team reported that overall, people who were overweight but not obese had slightly lower mortality rates than people whose weight qualified as normal. \u2014 Jennifer Couzin-frankel, Science | AAAS , 29 July 2021"
"borrowed from Latin ob\u0113sus \"fat, stout,\" past participle of * obedere, perhaps meaning originally \"to gnaw,\" from ob- \"against\" + edere \"to eat\" \u2014 more at ob- , eat entry 1":""
": a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body":[
"Obesity affects not just appearance, but disease processes as well.",
"\u2014 Malorye Allison"
]
},
"examples":[
"obesity has been linked to a number of health risks, such as heart disease",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Consumers have become increasingly aware of the health concerns associated with the overconsumption of sugar, such as obesity , diabetes and heart problems. \u2014 Ari Melamud, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"The heightened danger arises in part from the higher rates of comorbidities such as obesity , diabetes and heart, lung and kidney conditions among those with intellectual disabilities. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"For example, an unvaccinated person with multiple chronic conditions such as obesity , diabetes or chronic kidney disease. \u2014 Ariel Hart, ajc , 8 Feb. 2022",
"That would most likely cover tens of millions of Americans who are older or have medical conditions such as obesity , diabetes or heart disease. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The drugmaker studied its pill in people who were unvaccinated and who faced the greatest risk from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity . \u2014 CBS News , 18 Nov. 2021",
"The company studied its pill in people who were unvaccinated and faced the worst risks from the virus because of age or health problems, such as obesity . \u2014 From Staff Reports, Arkansas Online , 17 Nov. 2021",
"The company studied its pill in people who were unvaccinated and faced the worst risks from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity . \u2014 Matthew Perrone, chicagotribune.com , 16 Nov. 2021",
"Queen Latifah is opening about her journey with body image, including being diagnosed with obesity . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French obesit\u00e9, borrowed from Latin ob\u0113sit\u0101t-, ob\u0113sit\u0101s, from ob\u0113sus \"fat, stout\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at obese":""
"And corporate lobbyists have blocked regulation of dangerous products like firearms, obesogenic foods and addictive medications. \u2014 Jacob Bor, Scientific American , 5 Mar. 2021",
"The rules insulate you from the come-hither, obesogenic , food environment known as normal. \u2014 Tamar Haspel, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2020",
"Before about 1950, few of us faced an obesogenic environment. \u2014 Tamar Haspel, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2019"
"Those involved in criminal activity, and those failing to obey dispersal orders, are subject to arrest. \u2014 CBS News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Officials urged people to obey evacuation orders and said those under evacuation warnings should gather important items such as medications and be prepared to take action if necessary. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2021",
"In the case of Russia, if a no-fly zone was put in place over Ukraine, Russian forces don't have to necessarily obey the order; there is no imaginary forcefield preventing Russian President Vladimir Putin from ordering airstrikes on Ukraine. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 1 Mar. 2022",
"The parents in both Loudoun and Fairfax sued over their districts\u2019 refusal to obey an executive order Youngkin issued last month that sought to give parents across Virginia the right to opt their children out of masking requirements. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Refusing to obey a lawful order to disperse to maintain public safety. \u2014 Athena Ankrah, The Arizona Republic , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Zuma's decision to obey the Constitutional Court order comes after a week of rising tensions over his prison sentence. \u2014 NBC News , 29 June 2021",
"The defendants must not directly or indirectly contact any foreign officials or lawmakers, and must surrender all travel documents and obey a curfew order. \u2014 Eric Cheung And Cnn Staff, CNN , 4 Mar. 2021",
"But an eclipse passes according to immutable laws of physics; memory and reckoning do not obey a similarly strict orbit. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 12 Apr. 2022"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English obeien, borrowed from Anglo-French obeir, going back to Latin oboed\u012bre, from ob- \"toward, in the direction of\" + -oed\u012bre, probably unstressed form (with -oe- of uncertain origin) of aud\u012bre \"to hear\" \u2014 more at ob- , audible entry 1":""
"obfirm from Latin obfirmare, offirmare , from ob-, of- to, against, over + firmare to make firm; obfirmate from Latin obfirmatus, offirmatus , past participle of obfirmare, offirmare to make firm":""
"Their explanations only serve to obfuscate and confuse.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But with all respect to Steve Jobs, such myths can only further obfuscate the college finance discussion. \u2014 Michael Horowitz, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had a somewhat annoying marketing campaign where Marvel tried to obfuscate the truth as much as possible. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Overall, Minnesota boasts the highest percentage of students who meet the reading benchmark in the country and the third-highest for math \u2014 driven by the high marks of White students \u2014 which can obfuscate these racial disparities. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Nonetheless, the bill was named the Affordable Care Act, and Barack Obama and his allies spent much of the debate trying to obfuscate the issue of premiums. \u2014 Philip Klein, National Review , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Jenkins uses emotional and cultural arguments, as well as outlier athletic examples, to obfuscate the fact that as a group, men have a biological advantage in athletic competition. \u2014 Jenna Stocker, National Review , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Some of these women have medical conditions that obfuscate their pregnancy symptoms; in other cases, the signs were clearly there. \u2014 Danielle Lindemann, The Atlantic , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Though Rabin attempts to obfuscate and undermine it, significant research suggests that the fetal heartbeat is a helpful marker of health. \u2014 Alexandra Desanctis, National Review , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Don\u2019t let Auburn\u2019s failed quest to throw Harsin overboard obfuscate the issues raised last week by people who were part of the program in 2021. \u2014 Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY , 12 Feb. 2022"
"borrowed from Late Latin obfusc\u0101tus, offusc\u0101tus, past participle of obfusc\u0101re, offusc\u0101re \"to obscure, darken, depreciate,\" from Latin ob-, perfective prefix + -fusc\u0101re, verbal derivative of fuscus \"dark-colored, somber, dark-skinned or -complected\" \u2014 more at ob- , dusk entry 1":""
"Their explanations only serve to obfuscate and confuse.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But with all respect to Steve Jobs, such myths can only further obfuscate the college finance discussion. \u2014 Michael Horowitz, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had a somewhat annoying marketing campaign where Marvel tried to obfuscate the truth as much as possible. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Overall, Minnesota boasts the highest percentage of students who meet the reading benchmark in the country and the third-highest for math \u2014 driven by the high marks of White students \u2014 which can obfuscate these racial disparities. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Nonetheless, the bill was named the Affordable Care Act, and Barack Obama and his allies spent much of the debate trying to obfuscate the issue of premiums. \u2014 Philip Klein, National Review , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Jenkins uses emotional and cultural arguments, as well as outlier athletic examples, to obfuscate the fact that as a group, men have a biological advantage in athletic competition. \u2014 Jenna Stocker, National Review , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Some of these women have medical conditions that obfuscate their pregnancy symptoms; in other cases, the signs were clearly there. \u2014 Danielle Lindemann, The Atlantic , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Though Rabin attempts to obfuscate and undermine it, significant research suggests that the fetal heartbeat is a helpful marker of health. \u2014 Alexandra Desanctis, National Review , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Don\u2019t let Auburn\u2019s failed quest to throw Harsin overboard obfuscate the issues raised last week by people who were part of the program in 2021. \u2014 Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY , 12 Feb. 2022"
"1536, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Late Latin obfusc\u0101tus, offusc\u0101tus, past participle of obfusc\u0101re, offusc\u0101re \"to obscure, darken, depreciate,\" from Latin ob-, perfective prefix + -fusc\u0101re, verbal derivative of fuscus \"dark-colored, somber, dark-skinned or -complected\" \u2014 more at ob- , dusk entry 1":""
": a data structure in object-oriented programming that can contain functions (see function entry 1 sense 7 ) as well as constants, variables, and other data structures":[],
": a discrete entity (such as a window or icon) in computer graphics (see graphic entry 2 sense 2b ) that can be manipulated independently of other such entities":[],
": a noun or noun equivalent (such as a pronoun, gerund, or clause) denoting the goal or result of the action of a verb (such as ball in I hit the ball )":[],
": a noun or noun equivalent in a prepositional phrase (such as table in on the table )":[],
": a thing that forms an element of or constitutes the subject matter of an investigation or science":[
"objects of study"
],
": of, relating to, or being object code":[
"an object file"
],
": something material that may be perceived by the senses":[
"I see an object in the distance."
],
": something mental or physical toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed":[
"an object for study",
"the object of my affection",
"delicately carved art objects"
],
": something physical that is perceived by an individual and becomes an agent for psychological identification":[
"The mother is the primary object of the child."
],
": something that when viewed stirs a particular emotion (such as pity)":[
"Look on the tragic loading of this bed \u2026 the object poisons sight; let it be hid.",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": the goal or end of an effort or activity : purpose , objective":[
"Their object is to investigate the matter thoroughly.",
"The object of the game is to score the most points."
],
": to feel distaste for something":[],
": to oppose something firmly and usually with words or arguments":[],
": to put forth in opposition or as an objection":[
"There were three objects in the box: a comb, a pen, and a button.",
"His object is to determine how much the business will cost to operate.",
"Verb",
"No one objected when the paintings were removed.",
"\u201cWe can't buy the chair,\u201d he objected . \u201cIt won't fit in the car.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The unusual object could also be a piece of primordial material that never melted, according to NASA. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Such systems typically use K-band radio frequencies to determine how far away an object is from a vehicle, so just being near another car could set off your radar detector. \u2014 K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver , 22 June 2022",
"The object that gives Kamala her powers is a bangle from her nani, a literal and physical connection to her culture and heritage. \u2014 Katherine Singh, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"If money is no object , Modway\u2019s Jenna mattress is the plushest twin mattress in our roundup. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 10 June 2022",
"Scoring goals is no object right now and is not worth large-scale investment from Florentino P\u00e9rez and the board. \u2014 Henry Flynn, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"At 6-foot-6, 340 pounds, the Outland and Bednarik trophy winner is an immovable object who could anchor a run defense for years to come. \u2014 Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The man who parted with this gem was someone for whom money is no object and who bought shirts with the same frequency with which the rest of us buy facial tissues. \u2014 Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Mar. 2022",
"If price is no object , or if several family members are pooling their resources, there are vineyard residences, equestrian farms, agricultural land, ranches and other properties with acreage for sale. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Academics may object that biography is vulgar, like writing for money, but the approach of Mr. Cohen, a longtime London book editor, has the weight of history behind it. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Two lower courts rejected that argument as premature, saying Representatives Ryan Guillen, Brooks Landgraf, and John Lujan could object to particular questions but couldn\u2019t avoid sitting for depositions altogether. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"The vice president did not object , so Birx went on a road trip to speak face to face with governors around the country. \u2014 Colleen M. Farrell, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"The problem is, the thought experiment suggests that energy conservation can be violated in individual instances \u2014 something many physicists object to. \u2014 Katie Mccormick, Quanta Magazine , 16 May 2022",
"Its two cornerstone bills \u2014 one to require employers to vaccinate their workers and another to require the shot for school children regardless of whether their parents object \u2014 have been dropped. \u2014 Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 May 2022",
"In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object . \u2014 Denise Lavoie, ajc , 11 May 2022",
"His glib assurances that Hezbollah and Iran would not object to a Syria-Israel peace were scarcely credible, as, indeed, Hof notes. \u2014 Nicholas Blanford, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 May 2022",
"Replication at scale: This is where the nerds will object . \u2014 John Sabo, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The case raises the important question of whether the testimony and result will serve as object lessons for investors confronted with cheery promises in the future. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 Jan. 2022",
"One of these, game playing, combines social, locomotive and object play. \u2014 Caitlin O'connell, Scientific American , 1 Aug. 2021",
"But just shooting an object head-on without any movement is very dull. \u2014 Julian Chokkattu, Wired , 1 July 2021",
"But Democrats can\u2019t really object , given their past positions. \u2014 The Washington Post, Twin Cities , 15 Sep. 2019",
"Other Apple products potentially on the way include a redesigned MacBook Pro with a 16-inch screen, and a new AR-friendly object tracker similar to Tile\u2019s Bluetooth trackers. \u2014 Patrick Lucas Austin, Time , 9 Sep. 2019",
"Opponents object to local and state government actions as much as to Rockwool itself. \u2014 Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post , 9 June 2019",
"In theory, the tributaries would converge on a handful of top-layer neurons, which would represent sound or object categories. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 4 Dec. 2014",
"But a key difference is that these are entirely in 3D and are deployed with a much smarter sense of spatial and object recognition, thanks to Google\u2019s advances in artificial intelligence. \u2014 Casey Newton, The Verge , 10 Oct. 2018"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1959, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English object, objecte \"something presented to the senses, purpose, objection,\" borrowed from Latin objectum \"something presented to the senses, charge, accusation\" (Medieval Latin also, \"something presented to the mind, goal, aim\"), noun derivative from neuter of objectus, past participle of obicere, objicere \"to throw in the way, place against, put forward, present (to the eyes, mind, etc.), cite as a ground for disapproval,\" from ob- \"against, in the way\" + jacere \"to throw, cast\" \u2014 more at ob- , jet entry 3":"Noun",
"Middle English objecten, in part borrowed from Latin objectus, past participle of obicere, objicere \"to throw in the way, put forward, cite as a ground for disapproval or criticism,\" in part borrowed from Latin object\u0101re \"to throw before, put in the way, cite as a ground for disapproval,\" frequentative of obicere \u2014 more at object entry 1":"Verb",
"from attributive use of object entry 1":"Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for object Noun intention , intent , purpose , design , aim , end , object , objective , goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about. announced his intention to marry intent suggests clearer formulation or greater deliberateness. the clear intent of the statute purpose suggests a more settled determination. being successful was her purpose in life design implies a more carefully calculated plan. the order of events came by accident, not design aim adds to these implications of effort directed toward attaining or accomplishing. her aim was to raise film to an art form end stresses the intended effect of action often in distinction or contrast to the action or means as such. willing to use any means to achieve his end object may equal end but more often applies to a more individually determined wish or need. his constant object was the achievement of pleasure objective implies something tangible and immediately attainable. their objective is to seize the oil fields goal suggests something attained only by prolonged effort and hardship. worked years to reach her goals",
": a type of computer programming in which programs are composed of objects (see object entry 1 sense 6a ) which communicate with each other, which may be arranged into hierarchies, and which can be combined to form additional objects":[]
"Outfits that make fun of people's size, objectify human beings or otherwise make light of a person's lived experience are all insensitive. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 6 June 2022",
"The catalogue essays point to the obvious sensuality of the woman, to the erotic drama of her captivity and the way that invites viewers, especially men, to objectify her for visual gratification. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Like pickup artists, high-value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high-value partner as the prize. \u2014 Eve Upton-clark, refinery29.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Like pickup artists, high value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high value partner as the prize. \u2014 Eve Upton-clark, refinery29.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Readers were quick to categorize this as the latest example of an insidious double standard in which media outlets reporting on sports focus on the athletic achievements of men, yet persistently objectify the bodies of women. \u2014 Christine Yu, Outside Online , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In the third act, the mirrors are tilted even further to objectify and sexualize the literal and metaphorical climax of the play, making its violence and eroticism inescapable. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Outfits that make fun of people's size, objectify human beings, or otherwise make light of a person's lived experience are reflections of poor judgment. \u2014 Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes , 30 Oct. 2021",
"On social media, women cheerfully objectify the hot duke from Bridgerton and members of the Korean boy band BTS, while a man talking about female tennis players in similar terms would get pilloried as sexist. \u2014 Helen Lewis, The Atlantic , 3 Sep. 2021"
"Outfits that make fun of people's size, objectify human beings or otherwise make light of a person's lived experience are all insensitive. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 6 June 2022",
"The catalogue essays point to the obvious sensuality of the woman, to the erotic drama of her captivity and the way that invites viewers, especially men, to objectify her for visual gratification. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Like pickup artists, high-value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high-value partner as the prize. \u2014 Eve Upton-clark, refinery29.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Like pickup artists, high value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high value partner as the prize. \u2014 Eve Upton-clark, refinery29.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Readers were quick to categorize this as the latest example of an insidious double standard in which media outlets reporting on sports focus on the athletic achievements of men, yet persistently objectify the bodies of women. \u2014 Christine Yu, Outside Online , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In the third act, the mirrors are tilted even further to objectify and sexualize the literal and metaphorical climax of the play, making its violence and eroticism inescapable. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Outfits that make fun of people's size, objectify human beings, or otherwise make light of a person's lived experience are reflections of poor judgment. \u2014 Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes , 30 Oct. 2021",
"On social media, women cheerfully objectify the hot duke from Bridgerton and members of the Korean boy band BTS, while a man talking about female tennis players in similar terms would get pilloried as sexist. \u2014 Helen Lewis, The Atlantic , 3 Sep. 2021"
"My main objection is that some people will have to pay more than others.",
"He said he had no objection to the plan.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first objection during the joint session of Congress was raised by a Republican congressman from the Arizona, one of the states Trump most vehemently disputed was won by Biden. \u2014 Lisa Mascaro, Chron , 16 June 2022",
"The first objection during the joint session of Congress was raised by a Republican congressman from the Arizona, one of the states Trump most vehemently disputed was won by Biden. \u2014 Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"After Bonjean hurled yet another objection at him, the attorneys began to snipe at each other. \u2014 Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Salespeople should be armed with both knowledge of objection handling as well as the authority to be flexible in deal-making. \u2014 Pradeep Aradhya, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The state Senate voted 32-8 despite Baker's objection and a day after the House voted 119-36 on the same measure, dubbed the Work and Family Mobility Act. \u2014 Fox News , 9 June 2022",
"Does this mean that Orson is actually avoiding confrontation, only raising the objection in his head? \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"L\u00f3pez Obrador's objection stems from the White House's decision to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the gathering because of their autocratic governments. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"Because neither objection was signed by a senator, Vice President Biden, who presided over the tally, ruled them out of order. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 8 June 2022"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English objeccioun, borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin objecti\u014dn-, objecti\u014d, from Latin obicere, objicere \"to throw in the way, put forward, cite as a ground for disapproval or criticism\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action \u2014 more at object entry 1":""
": limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum":[
"Each question on the objective test requires the selection of the correct answer from among several choices."
],
": of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon , or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind":[
"objective reality",
"\u2026 our reveries \u2026 are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world.",
"\u2014 Marvin Reznikoff"
],
": perceptible to persons other than the affected individual":[
"objective arthritis"
],
": relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence":[
"\u2014 used chiefly in medieval philosophy"
],
": relating to, characteristic of, or constituting the case of words that follow prepositions or transitive verbs":[
"The pronoun her is in the objective case in the sentence \"I saw her.\""
],
": something toward which effort is directed : an aim, goal, or end of action":[],
"\u2014 compare subjective sense 3a":[
"objective reality",
"\u2026 our reveries \u2026 are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world.",
"For no matter how objective Server tries to appear in detailing the highs and lows of her 67 years\u2014the three marriages, the numerous affairs, the binges, the nightlong cruising of low-life byways and bordellos, the mainly poor movies she was in\u2014he cannot really hide his essential fondness for her. \u2014 Peter Bogdanovich , New York Times Book Review , 23 Apr. 2006",
"I'm not going to read the history about it while I'm alive because I don't trust short-term history. Most historians wouldn't have voted for me, so I don't think they can write an objective history. \u2014 George W. Bush , quoted in Time , 6 Sept. 2004",
"\"I'm not really a Hollywood person,\" said Mr. [Clint] Eastwood, who lives mostly in Carmel. \"Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy. And it's very hard to be objective about what you're doing in a town that's all consumed by the entertainment business.\" \u2014 Bernard Weinraub , New York Times , 6 Aug. 1992",
"We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis.",
"an objective assessment based solely upon the results of the experiment",
"Noun",
"The first objective of the low-intensity war was to \"bleed\" India so that it would cut its losses and quit. \u2014 Pervez Hoodbhoy , Prospect , June 2003",
"The Orange Plan assumed an early Japanese capture of the Philippines, and made relief of the Philippines the main U.S. objective . \u2014 David M. Kennedy , Atlantic , March 1999",
"The President had largely stuck to his publicly stated goals\u2014though the objective of smashing Iraq's military machine hadn't been so clear. \u2014 Elizabeth Drew , New Yorker , 6 May 1991",
"\u2026 their primary objective is not the enrollment of new voters but changing the party affiliation of old voters \u2026 \u2014 Lawrence King , Commonweal , 9 Oct. 1970",
"The main objective of the class is to teach basic typing skills.",
"She's expanding the business with the objective of improving efficiency.",
"Just as important, Karins said, have been Latvia's efforts to fill the void left by those Russian language channels with objective information. \u2014 Paulina Smolinski, CBS News , 1 July 2022",
"Companies should set about five objective criteria to identify which employees to let go. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"June 16 \u2013 June 30th: With sensitive Venus\u2014your planetary ruler\u2014harshly aspected on the 18th, your ability to be objective and wait and see will result in brilliant breakthroughs by the 21st. \u2014 Katharine Merlin, Town & Country , 16 June 2022",
"Orwell himself was a strong believer in the concept of objective truth. \u2014 Laura Beers, CNN , 6 May 2022",
"My hope is that Twitter becomes less objective about content and more restrictive about users at the same time. \u2014 John Brandon, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"James\u2019s way is not scientifically objective so much as quietly and determinedly political. \u2014 Ian Beacock, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Being an arbiter of objective truth and knowledge is way overrated, anyway. \u2014 Devon Ivie, Vulture , 30 Sep. 2021",
"That is an objective declaration: tonight, the New York City cocktail haunt was crowned with the official title at the awards ceremony for North America\u2019s 50 Best Bars. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Value stream mapping, or designing the entire supply chain with the objective of detailing production, will be extremely important. \u2014 Jr Belardo, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Worried that traditional Khasi knowledge may feel irrelevant to younger generations, Mr. Khongthaw founded the Living Bridge Initiative in 2016, with the objective of preserving, protecting, and increasing the number of living root bridges. \u2014 Anne Pinto-rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 June 2022",
"Patrushev has emerged as one of the leading voices in Putin\u2019s inner circle who wants to wage a merciless war in Ukraine, with the ultimate objective of capturing Kyiv. \u2014 Susanne Sternthal, The Conversation , 7 June 2022",
"Between turnovers, fouls and the Suns being out of rhythm offensively to Dallas playing physical on both ends with an objective to wear him down, Paul is facing his share of obstacles in this series. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 10 May 2022",
"The objective shifted from regime change to capturing the Donbas, in the east. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 16 June 2022",
"The business objective of the organization, the drive for growth, the drive for development, the drive for ambition\u2014this is all contained in the word power. \u2014 Christopher Marquis, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The main objective of the audit, conducted by the General Assembly Office of Legislative Audits, was to review the office\u2019s finances from Sept. 7, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2021. \u2014 Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"Without risking a single life, or losing a single soldier, the U.S. has achieved a remarkable strategic objective : the degrading of the capability of the Russian military. \u2014 Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic , 9 May 2022"
"borrowed from Medieval Latin object\u012bvus \"considered in relation to its purpose, relating to an object of thought,\" from objectum \"something presented to the mind, goal, aim\" + Latin -\u012bvus -ive \u2014 more at object entry 1":"Adjective",
"in sense 1 probably short for objective point \"goal of a military operation\"; in sense 2 noun derivative of objective, adjective, \"nearest the object (of the parts of a lens in a telescope, microscope, etc.),\" probably borrowed from French (in verre objectif \"lens nearest the object\") \u2014 more at objective entry 1":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259b-\u02c8jek-tiv, \u00e4b-",
"\u0259b-\u02c8jek-tiv",
"\u00e4b-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for objective Adjective material , physical , corporeal , phenomenal , sensible , objective mean of or belonging to actuality. material implies formation out of tangible matter; used in contrast with spiritual or ideal it may connote the mundane, crass, or grasping. material values physical applies to what is perceived directly by the senses and may contrast with mental, spiritual , or imaginary . the physical benefits of exercise corporeal implies having the tangible qualities of a body such as shape, size, or resistance to force. artists have portrayed angels as corporeal beings phenomenal applies to what is known or perceived through the senses rather than by intuition or rational deduction. scientists concerned with the phenomenal world sensible stresses the capability of readily or forcibly impressing the senses. the earth's rotation is not sensible to us objective may stress material or independent existence apart from a subject perceiving it. no objective evidence of damage fair , just , equitable , impartial , unbiased , dispassionate , objective mean free from favor toward either or any side. fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests. a fair decision just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper. a just settlement of territorial claims equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned. the equitable distribution of the property impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice. an impartial third party unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice. your unbiased opinion dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment. a dispassionate summation of the facts objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings. I can't be objective about my own child Noun intention , intent , purpose , design , aim , end , object , objective , goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about. announced his intention to marry intent suggests clearer formulation or greater deliberateness. the clear intent of the statute purpose suggests a more settled determination. being successful was her purpose in life design implies a more carefully calculated plan. the order of events came by accident, not design aim adds to these implications of effort directed toward attaining or accomplishing. her aim was to raise film to an art form end stresses the intended effect of action often in distinction or contrast to the action or means as such. willing to use any means to achieve his end object may equal end but more often applies to a more individually determined wish or need. his constant object was the achievement of pleasure objective implies something tangible and immediately attainable. their objective is to seize the oil fields goal suggests something attained only by prolonged effort and hardship. worked years to reach her goals",
": of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon , or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind":[
"objective reality",
"\u2026 our reveries \u2026 are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world.",
"For no matter how objective Server tries to appear in detailing the highs and lows of her 67 years\u2014the three marriages, the numerous affairs, the binges, the nightlong cruising of low-life byways and bordellos, the mainly poor movies she was in\u2014he cannot really hide his essential fondness for her. \u2014 Peter Bogdanovich , New York Times Book Review , 23 Apr. 2006",
"I'm not going to read the history about it while I'm alive because I don't trust short-term history. Most historians wouldn't have voted for me, so I don't think they can write an objective history. \u2014 George W. Bush , quoted in Time , 6 Sept. 2004",
"\"I'm not really a Hollywood person,\" said Mr. [Clint] Eastwood, who lives mostly in Carmel. \"Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy. And it's very hard to be objective about what you're doing in a town that's all consumed by the entertainment business.\" \u2014 Bernard Weinraub , New York Times , 6 Aug. 1992",
"We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis.",
"an objective assessment based solely upon the results of the experiment",
"The first objective of the low-intensity war was to \"bleed\" India so that it would cut its losses and quit. \u2014 Pervez Hoodbhoy , Prospect , June 2003",
"The Orange Plan assumed an early Japanese capture of the Philippines, and made relief of the Philippines the main U.S. objective . \u2014 David M. Kennedy , Atlantic , March 1999",
"The President had largely stuck to his publicly stated goals\u2014though the objective of smashing Iraq's military machine hadn't been so clear. \u2014 Elizabeth Drew , New Yorker , 6 May 1991",
"\u2026 their primary objective is not the enrollment of new voters but changing the party affiliation of old voters \u2026 \u2014 Lawrence King , Commonweal , 9 Oct. 1970",
"The main objective of the class is to teach basic typing skills.",
"She's expanding the business with the objective of improving efficiency.",
"Just as important, Karins said, have been Latvia's efforts to fill the void left by those Russian language channels with objective information. \u2014 Paulina Smolinski, CBS News , 1 July 2022",
"Companies should set about five objective criteria to identify which employees to let go. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"June 16 \u2013 June 30th: With sensitive Venus\u2014your planetary ruler\u2014harshly aspected on the 18th, your ability to be objective and wait and see will result in brilliant breakthroughs by the 21st. \u2014 Katharine Merlin, Town & Country , 16 June 2022",
"Orwell himself was a strong believer in the concept of objective truth. \u2014 Laura Beers, CNN , 6 May 2022",
"My hope is that Twitter becomes less objective about content and more restrictive about users at the same time. \u2014 John Brandon, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"James\u2019s way is not scientifically objective so much as quietly and determinedly political. \u2014 Ian Beacock, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Being an arbiter of objective truth and knowledge is way overrated, anyway. \u2014 Devon Ivie, Vulture , 30 Sep. 2021",
"That is an objective declaration: tonight, the New York City cocktail haunt was crowned with the official title at the awards ceremony for North America\u2019s 50 Best Bars. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Value stream mapping, or designing the entire supply chain with the objective of detailing production, will be extremely important. \u2014 Jr Belardo, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Worried that traditional Khasi knowledge may feel irrelevant to younger generations, Mr. Khongthaw founded the Living Bridge Initiative in 2016, with the objective of preserving, protecting, and increasing the number of living root bridges. \u2014 Anne Pinto-rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 June 2022",
"Patrushev has emerged as one of the leading voices in Putin\u2019s inner circle who wants to wage a merciless war in Ukraine, with the ultimate objective of capturing Kyiv. \u2014 Susanne Sternthal, The Conversation , 7 June 2022",
"Between turnovers, fouls and the Suns being out of rhythm offensively to Dallas playing physical on both ends with an objective to wear him down, Paul is facing his share of obstacles in this series. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 10 May 2022",
"The objective shifted from regime change to capturing the Donbas, in the east. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 16 June 2022",
"The business objective of the organization, the drive for growth, the drive for development, the drive for ambition\u2014this is all contained in the word power. \u2014 Christopher Marquis, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The main objective of the audit, conducted by the General Assembly Office of Legislative Audits, was to review the office\u2019s finances from Sept. 7, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2021. \u2014 Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"Without risking a single life, or losing a single soldier, the U.S. has achieved a remarkable strategic objective : the degrading of the capability of the Russian military. \u2014 Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic , 9 May 2022"
"1647, in the meaning defined at sense 2d":"Adjective",
"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Medieval Latin object\u012bvus \"considered in relation to its purpose, relating to an object of thought,\" from objectum \"something presented to the mind, goal, aim\" + Latin -\u012bvus -ive \u2014 more at object entry 1":"Adjective",
"in sense 1 probably short for objective point \"goal of a military operation\"; in sense 2 noun derivative of objective, adjective, \"nearest the object (of the parts of a lens in a telescope, microscope, etc.),\" probably borrowed from French (in verre objectif \"lens nearest the object\") \u2014 more at objective entry 1":"Noun"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for objective Adjective material , physical , corporeal , phenomenal , sensible , objective mean of or belonging to actuality. material implies formation out of tangible matter; used in contrast with spiritual or ideal it may connote the mundane, crass, or grasping. material values physical applies to what is perceived directly by the senses and may contrast with mental, spiritual , or imaginary . the physical benefits of exercise corporeal implies having the tangible qualities of a body such as shape, size, or resistance to force. artists have portrayed angels as corporeal beings phenomenal applies to what is known or perceived through the senses rather than by intuition or rational deduction. scientists concerned with the phenomenal world sensible stresses the capability of readily or forcibly impressing the senses. the earth's rotation is not sensible to us objective may stress material or independent existence apart from a subject perceiving it. no objective evidence of damage fair , just , equitable , impartial , unbiased , dispassionate , objective mean free from favor toward either or any side. fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests. a fair decision just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper. a just settlement of territorial claims equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned. the equitable distribution of the property impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice. an impartial third party unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice. your unbiased opinion dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment. a dispassionate summation of the facts objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings. I can't be objective about my own child Noun intention , intent , purpose , design , aim , end , object , objective , goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about. announced his intention to marry intent suggests clearer formulation or greater deliberateness. the clear intent of the statute purpose suggests a more settled determination. being successful was her purpose in life design implies a more carefully calculated plan. the order of events came by accident, not design aim adds to these implications of effort directed toward attaining or accomplishing. her aim was to raise film to an art form end stresses the intended effect of action often in distinction or contrast to the action or means as such. willing to use any means to achieve his end object may equal end but more often applies to a more individually determined wish or need. his constant object was the achievement of pleasure objective implies something tangible and immediately attainable. their objective is to seize the oil fields goal suggests something attained only by prolonged effort and hardship. worked years to reach her goals",
": the quality or character of being objective : lack of favoritism toward one side or another : freedom from bias":[
"Many people questioned the selection committee's objectivity .",
"It can be difficult for parents to maintain objectivity about their children's accomplishments.",
"Many critics disputed the objectivity and reliability of his field observations, foreshadowing current anthropological concerns about the ability of any fieldworker to rise above personal preconceptions and impartially describe another culture.",
"\u2014 Bruce Bower",
"In journalistic circles, there was a good deal of hand-wringing that the bonds forged between reporters and soldiers could threaten objectivity .",
"The house is decorated with objets d'art from around the world.",
"the museum's collection is strongest in objets d'art from the South Pacific",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An evocative keepsake of pregnancy, belly casts, quite literally, cement and commemorate a woman's growing bump as an objet d'art . \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 7 May 2021",
"The first Buly spa arrives in Paris French brand L'Officine Universelle Buly appeals to aesthetes and beauty junkies alike with its handsomely packaged products, which are as much objets d'art as top-shelf serums. \u2014 Betsy Blumenthal, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Tickets have often been objets d'art in their own right, something to hold and to behold. \u2014 Steve Rushin, SI.com , 12 Sep. 2019",
"The restaurant's decor\u2014which features artwork, objets d'art , and furniture from chef-owner Benjamin Seck's collection\u2014is as colorful as the food. \u2014 Hanya Yanagihara, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 24 Sep. 2018",
"The restaurant's decor\u2014which features artwork, objets d'art , and furniture from chef-owner Benjamin Seck's collection\u2014is as colorful as the food. \u2014 Hanya Yanagihara, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 24 Sep. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1865, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"An evocative keepsake of pregnancy, belly casts, quite literally, cement and commemorate a woman's growing bump as an objet d'art . \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 7 May 2021",
"The first Buly spa arrives in Paris French brand L'Officine Universelle Buly appeals to aesthetes and beauty junkies alike with its handsomely packaged products, which are as much objets d'art as top-shelf serums. \u2014 Betsy Blumenthal, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Tickets have often been objets d'art in their own right, something to hold and to behold. \u2014 Steve Rushin, SI.com , 12 Sep. 2019",
"The restaurant's decor\u2014which features artwork, objets d'art , and furniture from chef-owner Benjamin Seck's collection\u2014is as colorful as the food. \u2014 Hanya Yanagihara, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 24 Sep. 2018",
"The restaurant's decor\u2014which features artwork, objets d'art , and furniture from chef-owner Benjamin Seck's collection\u2014is as colorful as the food. \u2014 Hanya Yanagihara, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 24 Sep. 2018"
"Middle English objurgacyon, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French objurgacion, borrowed from Latin obj\u016brg\u0101ti\u014dn-, obj\u016brg\u0101ti\u014d, from obj\u016brg\u0101re \"to reprove, rebuke, find fault with\" (from ob- \"against\" + j\u016brg\u0101re, j\u016brig\u0101re \"to quarrel, wrangle, utter reproaches,\" from j\u016br-, j\u016bs \"law, right, prerogative\" + -ig\u0101re, causative and factitive suffix) + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action \u2014 more at ob- , just entry 1 , fumigate":""
"Middle English objurgacyon, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French objurgacion, borrowed from Latin obj\u016brg\u0101ti\u014dn-, obj\u016brg\u0101ti\u014d, from obj\u016brg\u0101re \"to reprove, rebuke, find fault with\" (from ob- \"against\" + j\u016brg\u0101re, j\u016brig\u0101re \"to quarrel, wrangle, utter reproaches,\" from j\u016br-, j\u016bs \"law, right, prerogative\" + -ig\u0101re, causative and factitive suffix) + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action \u2014 more at ob- , just entry 1 , fumigate":""
"The contract obligates the firm to complete the work in six weeks.",
"the problem is of your own making, so don't think that you can obligate me to help",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Leadership must strive to mature and obligate opportunity through support, guidance and goodwill. \u2014 Peter Weedfald, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The 236-page agreement would obligate the county to make at least $10 million in renovations to Paul Brown Stadium. \u2014 Scott Wartman, The Enquirer , 2 June 2022",
"In total, the Biden administration intends to obligate more than $713 million in foreign military financing for Ukraine and 15 other European countries, virtually all of whom have supported Ukraine's military from their own stockpiles. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"While the local government wanted to obligate all people entering the territory to be vaccinated, Paris initially deemed that French citizens could not be bound by such a rule. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Digital rights activists have blasted a decision by Russian authorities to obligate foreign tech firms to open local offices starting Jan. 1, fearing that those subsidiaries can be used to pressure companies into Internet censorship. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Dec. 2021",
"And a point worth underscoring: Enabling a committee to probe whether impeachable crimes have been committed would not obligate the House of Representatives to follow through with formal impeachment proceedings. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 13 Feb. 2022",
"That followed a 2009 decision that a Utah town\u2019s display of a Ten Commandments monument didn\u2019t obligate it to place in a public park a monument displaying the Seven Aphorisms of Summum, a religious group known for its practice of mummification. \u2014 Jess Bravin, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The state, counties, and municipalities have until the end of 2024 to obligate the ARPA funds, which have to be spent by the end of 2026. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Biologists have observed, over long periods of time, that species that are obligate parthenogens frequently die out from disease, parasitism or changes in habitat. \u2014 Mercedes Burns, CNN , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Females of these species, which include some wasps, crustaceans and lizards, reproduce only through parthenogenesis and are called obligate parthenogens. \u2014 Mercedes Burns, CNN , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Morels exhibit a lavish, almost obligate response to fire, flourishing most in the springtime after a fire has cleared an area and augmented the soil with carbon. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 13 Feb. 2020",
"Cats are obligate carnivores, so quality cat food should consist primarily of meat. \u2014 Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
"Indeed, the variety Dr Abe chose to work with, known as the Notojima strain, is, like the bdelloids, an obligate parthenogen. \u2014 The Economist , 23 Jan. 2021",
"And because cats are obligate carnivores, meat is the name of the game. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2020",
"About 50 kinds of lizards reproduce exclusively by asexual means ( obligate parthenogenesis), plus the one species of snake mentioned above. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 June 2020"
"borrowed from German obligat \"necessary, unavoidable,\" borrowed from Latin oblig\u0101tus \"under an obligation,\" from past participle of oblig\u0101re \"to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint\" \u2014 more at oblige":"Adjective",
"borrowed from Latin oblig\u0101tus, past participle of oblig\u0101re \"to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint\" \u2014 more at oblige":"Verb"
"No representation is made with respect to the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of information and Boyar assumes no obligation to update or revise such information. \u2014 Jonathan Boyar, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"How often any of this happens is a matter of some debate, since shipping companies are typically under no obligation to publicize the matter when their cargo winds up in the ocean. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"When viewers don\u2019t watch, there is no contractual obligation to keep them. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 May 2022",
"Yet while countries such as Germany have passed legislation to place the responsibility for policing their sites firmly on the shoulders of the platform providers themselves, there is no such obligation in the United States. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"The pass will be good only for this summer, and the town has no obligation to continue the program after this year. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"Reid Weingarten and Brian Heberlig, lawyers for Mr. Wynn, said in a statement that their client never acted as an agent of the Chinese government and had no obligation to register. \u2014 Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Although policies vary depending on the app involved, experts say companies that produce menstrual-cycle programs generally have no obligation to keep these data private. \u2014 Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American , 13 May 2022",
"The department is under no obligation to implement her recommendations. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022"
"Middle English obligacioun, borrowed from Anglo-French obligacion, borrowed from Latin oblig\u0101ti\u014dn-, oblig\u0101ti\u014d, from oblig\u0101re \"to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint\" + -ti\u014dn- -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action \u2014 more at oblige":""
"This action movie includes the obligatory chase scenes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There's even the now obligatory reference to Redbox as a MOASS --\u2014 Mother of All Short Squeezes. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"There are even the obligatory farmers market bags of kettle corn. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"The sinister shade successfully masks the mid-size SUV's awkward appearance, and when matched with the optional bi-color bronze 22-inch rims and obligatory bronze exterior trim ($1450 altogether), the iX legitimately looks badass. \u2014 Car and Driver , 28 May 2022",
"An angsty round of truth or dare followed later that night around the bonfire, complete with \u2014 what else \u2014 obligatory kissing. \u2014 Mitch Wallace, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"In the obligatory news write-ups of this bizarre episode, many beleaguered reporters felt compelled to point out the complexities of this case. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 23 May 2022",
"The trailer opens with a lone figure on horseback galloping across a desert, before cutting to quick scenes around the globe\u2014including the obligatory nightclub scene featuring scantily clad gyrating bodies. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 23 May 2022",
"Some of them have seemed more obligatory than sincere. \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022",
"Being the first songwriter in a century to win a Nobel, Dylan wrote the obligatory banquet speech. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English obligatorie, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French obligatorie, obligatoire, borrowed from Latin oblig\u0101t\u014drius, from oblig\u0101re \"to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint\" + -t\u014drius, deverbal adjective suffix, originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -t\u014dr-, -tor \u2014 more at oblige":""
"Many Chinese communities think yellow skin is an indicator of a chicken that lived well, and hence eats well, and some kitchens will tint the poaching water with a tiny bit of turmeric to oblige their customers. \u2014 Tse Wei Lim, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"But super-fans are willing to pay $19.95 a month for access, and Paul is happy to oblige them. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"The question has proved difficult to answer, partly because our own intellectual traditions oblige us to use what is, in effect, imperial language to do so. \u2014 David Graeber, Harper's Magazine , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Anyway, Austin and Belle Noir were happy to oblige him. \u2014 Andrea Reiher, Variety , 25 Aug. 2021",
"The cookie phase-out is likely to oblige you to rethink parts of your data strategy. \u2014 Matthew Lieberman, Forbes , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Deutsche Wohnen, another property behemoth that owns 110,000 flats in Berlin, says its fiduciary duty to its shareholders would oblige it to demand repayment from tenants, as Berlin is by far its most important market. \u2014 The Economist , 9 Mar. 2021",
"Brown is happy to oblige . Fellow trophy bass hunter Ben Dehnadi operates the Low Down Customs shop in Tustin. \u2014 Steven E. Banks, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
"Theorists, of course, are more than happy to oblige . \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American , 18 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English obligen, oblischen \"to impose on as a legal or moral duty, bind by oath or contract,\" borrowed from Anglo-French obliger, borrowed from Latin oblig\u0101re \"to tie up, restrain by tying, assign, place under a legal or moral constraint, pledge,\" from ob- \"toward, facing\" + lig\u0101re \"to fasten, bind\" \u2014 more at ob- , ligature":""
},
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"\u0259-\u02c8bl\u012bj"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for oblige force , compel , coerce , constrain , oblige mean to make someone or something yield. force is the general term and implies the overcoming of resistance by the exertion of strength, power, or duress. forced to flee for their lives compel typically suggests overcoming of resistance or unwillingness by an irresistible force. compelled to admit my mistake coerce suggests overcoming resistance or unwillingness by actual or threatened violence or pressure. coerced into signing over the rights constrain suggests the effect of a force or circumstance that limits freedom of action or choice. constrained by conscience oblige implies the constraint of necessity, law, or duty. felt obliged to go",
"Many Chinese communities think yellow skin is an indicator of a chicken that lived well, and hence eats well, and some kitchens will tint the poaching water with a tiny bit of turmeric to oblige their customers. \u2014 Tse Wei Lim, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"But super-fans are willing to pay $19.95 a month for access, and Paul is happy to oblige them. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"The question has proved difficult to answer, partly because our own intellectual traditions oblige us to use what is, in effect, imperial language to do so. \u2014 David Graeber, Harper's Magazine , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Anyway, Austin and Belle Noir were happy to oblige him. \u2014 Andrea Reiher, Variety , 25 Aug. 2021",
"The cookie phase-out is likely to oblige you to rethink parts of your data strategy. \u2014 Matthew Lieberman, Forbes , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Deutsche Wohnen, another property behemoth that owns 110,000 flats in Berlin, says its fiduciary duty to its shareholders would oblige it to demand repayment from tenants, as Berlin is by far its most important market. \u2014 The Economist , 9 Mar. 2021",
"Brown is happy to oblige . Fellow trophy bass hunter Ben Dehnadi operates the Low Down Customs shop in Tustin. \u2014 Steven E. Banks, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
"Theorists, of course, are more than happy to oblige . \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American , 18 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English obligen, oblischen \"to impose on as a legal or moral duty, bind by oath or contract,\" borrowed from Anglo-French obliger, borrowed from Latin oblig\u0101re \"to tie up, restrain by tying, assign, place under a legal or moral constraint, pledge,\" from ob- \"toward, facing\" + lig\u0101re \"to fasten, bind\" \u2014 more at ob- , ligature":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for oblige force , compel , coerce , constrain , oblige mean to make someone or something yield. force is the general term and implies the overcoming of resistance by the exertion of strength, power, or duress. forced to flee for their lives compel typically suggests overcoming of resistance or unwillingness by an irresistible force. compelled to admit my mistake coerce suggests overcoming resistance or unwillingness by actual or threatened violence or pressure. coerced into signing over the rights constrain suggests the effect of a force or circumstance that limits freedom of action or choice. constrained by conscience oblige implies the constraint of necessity, law, or duty. felt obliged to go",
"These are particularly specious claims, especially given that Trump\u2019s recklessness (or toughness, depending on your perspective) was never really applied to Russia or Putin, to whom Trump tended to be pliant and obliging . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But history is rarely so obliging about the timing and particulars of its dramatic turns. \u2014 Editorial Board, Star Tribune , 2 July 2021",
"Noble, 26, is best known for riding her own four-legged mirror, an obliging Appaloosa named Dapper Dan, through downtown Oakland during last year\u2019s Black Lives Matter demonstrations. \u2014 Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 June 2021",
"The state Legislature has proved less obliging than the city, with Republican lawmakers opposing a $300 million relief package for Twin Cities businesses, contending that Minneapolis officials mishandled the crisis a year ago. \u2014 Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 May 2021",
"Modi has used these levers to turn some of the biggest names in India\u2019s news industry from barking watchdogs into obliging poodles. \u2014 Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time , 3 May 2021",
"Few opponents will be more obliging over the next month as South Korea, a country competing in its third Women's World Cup but which has only one victory at the tournament to its name. \u2014 Aimee Lewis, CNN , 7 June 2019",
"New York City, after all, can be a most obliging co-star to its population of unwitting actors, who are always putting on a show. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 19 June 2018",
"Langford will keep obliging and tickets will keep selling. \u2014 Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star , 5 June 2018"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obliging amiable , good-natured , obliging , complaisant mean having the desire or disposition to please. amiable implies having qualities that make one liked and easy to deal with. an amiable teacher not easily annoyed good-natured implies cheerfulness or helpfulness and sometimes a willingness to be imposed upon. a good-natured girl who was always willing to pitch in obliging stresses a friendly readiness to be helpful. our obliging innkeeper found us a bigger room complaisant often implies passivity or a yielding to others because of weakness. was too complaisant to protest a decision he thought unfair",
"An obliging passerby helped her with her packages.",
"an obliging concierge used her pull to get us reservations at the town's hottest restaurant",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These are particularly specious claims, especially given that Trump\u2019s recklessness (or toughness, depending on your perspective) was never really applied to Russia or Putin, to whom Trump tended to be pliant and obliging . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But history is rarely so obliging about the timing and particulars of its dramatic turns. \u2014 Editorial Board, Star Tribune , 2 July 2021",
"Noble, 26, is best known for riding her own four-legged mirror, an obliging Appaloosa named Dapper Dan, through downtown Oakland during last year\u2019s Black Lives Matter demonstrations. \u2014 Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 June 2021",
"The state Legislature has proved less obliging than the city, with Republican lawmakers opposing a $300 million relief package for Twin Cities businesses, contending that Minneapolis officials mishandled the crisis a year ago. \u2014 Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 May 2021",
"Modi has used these levers to turn some of the biggest names in India\u2019s news industry from barking watchdogs into obliging poodles. \u2014 Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time , 3 May 2021",
"Few opponents will be more obliging over the next month as South Korea, a country competing in its third Women's World Cup but which has only one victory at the tournament to its name. \u2014 Aimee Lewis, CNN , 7 June 2019",
"New York City, after all, can be a most obliging co-star to its population of unwitting actors, who are always putting on a show. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 19 June 2018",
"Langford will keep obliging and tickets will keep selling. \u2014 Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star , 5 June 2018"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obliging amiable , good-natured , obliging , complaisant mean having the desire or disposition to please. amiable implies having qualities that make one liked and easy to deal with. an amiable teacher not easily annoyed good-natured implies cheerfulness or helpfulness and sometimes a willingness to be imposed upon. a good-natured girl who was always willing to pitch in obliging stresses a friendly readiness to be helpful. our obliging innkeeper found us a bigger room complaisant often implies passivity or a yielding to others because of weakness. was too complaisant to protest a decision he thought unfair",
"This issue appears to be as a mirror of the Delray Beach Florida issue except the obligor is being stiffed with an 8.5% interest rate. \u2014 Richard Lehmann, Forbes , 8 Oct. 2021"
"They were painted in oil paints on old-fashioned canvas. But the manner of their portrayal was oblique and enigmatic, with an element of hide-and-seek in which hiding most often won out over seeking. \u2014 John Russell , New York Times Magazine , 11 Nov. 1990",
"The driveway met the street at an oblique angle, and a jutting corner of the customer's cinderblock building, a large power pole, and a berm of trash (pallets, pails, chunks of wood) made it a dogleg affair. \u2014 Bryan Di Salvatore , New Yorker , 12 Sept. 1988",
"The short lines of the letter \u201ck\u201d are oblique lines.",
"gave the eavesdropper an oblique glance out of the corner of her eye",
"We each received a list of every muscle group (back, inner thighs, outer thighs, quads, biceps, obliques , upper abs, etc.), with detailed comments on which ones we needed to change. \u2014 anonymous , Cosmopolitan , November 2007",
"He hammered on my back with both fists, but I had a lot of muscle layer to protect back there. Twenty years of working on the lats and the lateral obliques . I got hold of his shirtfront with both hands and pulled him away from the wall and slammed him back up against it. \u2014 Robert B. Parker , Mortal Stakes , 1975",
"INF Ramon Urias took batting practice Monday and is progressing from a left oblique strain that landed him on the 10-Day IL on June 11. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Ross wants to make sure Suzuki (sprained left ring finger) and Gomes (left oblique strain) in particular get enough reps before returning. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Max Scherzer is recovering from an oblique strain, Jacob deGrom has a shoulder injury and Tylor Megill, an early-season breakout star, is working his way back from biceps tendinitis. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"Catcher Carson Kelly has been out since May 4 with a left oblique strain. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 30 May 2022",
"In a corresponding move, catcher Yan Gomes went on the IL with a left oblique strain. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"The catcher has been sidelined by an oblique strain this year (though he's been dominant when he's been available, with a 1.672 OPS and three homers in six games). \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 May 2022",
"Manager David Ross indicated Gomes\u2019 oblique strain is on the milder side, which is encouraging for an injury that can be tough to come back from. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"In his second appearance of his rehab assignment following a left oblique strain, right-hander Dean Kremer started for Triple-A Norfolk and pitched three hits and scoreless innings with six strikeouts. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The outing against the Hartford Yard Goats was pushed back a day from Tuesday, but New York manager Buck Showalter says there\u2019s been no setback in Scherzer\u2019s recovery from a strained oblique . \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 29 June 2022",
"Scherzer is currently recovering from a May oblique strain that is likely to keep him sidelined into July. \u2014 Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"New York said the scan detected a moderate-to-high grade strain of the internal oblique , a musle on the side that causes pain over the ribcage. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 20 May 2022",
"When WatchGuard first released the May 2021 software updates, the company made only the most oblique of references to the vulnerability. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Before Kelly strained his oblique in early May, Varsho only started two games behind the plate. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2022",
"Mets pitcher Max Scherzer is expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks with a strained oblique muscle in his left side, the latest blow to a New York pitching staff already missing ace Jacob deGrom. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 19 May 2022",
"Given that high barrier to good oblique training, this move is overrated\u2014and even worse, a potential injury waiting to happen. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Third baseman Josh Rojas has a strained right oblique and will not be ready for Opening Day, the third Diamondbacks position player expected to play a significant role to go down with an injury this spring. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English oblique, oblike, borrowed from Anglo-French oblic, oblique, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bquus \"slanting, transverse,\" from ob- \"against, facing\" + -l\u012bquus, of uncertain meaning and origin \u2014 more at ob-":"Adjective",
"Kogonada approaches the same quandary from a more oblique angle . \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Malick has found an unusually oblique angle from which to approach Nazism, and there is no war footage in the film. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 11 Dec. 2019",
"Even the second node of a two-piece kit has to reach it by way of both a wall and a floor/ceiling at a nasty oblique angle . \u2014 Jim Salter, Ars Technica , 4 Nov. 2019",
"Such pairings as white and green or two shades of yellow are calming, but Flick\u2019s oblique angles disturb the peace. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Just an oblique angle of the path and garden, the empty road beyond, and then the dark, shadowy expanse of the field stretching away into the distance. \u2014 David Canfield, EW.com , 24 July 2019",
"His antler retoucher, for instance, bore the scars of striking chert at an oblique angle in the direction a right-handed flintknapper would use. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 22 June 2018",
"In one, a creamy pale yellow, the vessels appear slightly italicized by Wagner's oblique angle of view. \u2014 Leah Ollman, latimes.com , 13 Mar. 2018",
"The series tapped deeply into the zeitgeist by glancing off that zeitgeist at an oblique angle . \u2014 Todd Vanderwerff, Slate Magazine , 18 Dec. 2017"
": the celestial sphere and its analogous terrestrial sphere when oriented so the heavenly bodies rise and set at angles other than a right angle (as for an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator)":[]
"They were painted in oil paints on old-fashioned canvas. But the manner of their portrayal was oblique and enigmatic, with an element of hide-and-seek in which hiding most often won out over seeking. \u2014 John Russell , New York Times Magazine , 11 Nov. 1990",
"The driveway met the street at an oblique angle, and a jutting corner of the customer's cinderblock building, a large power pole, and a berm of trash (pallets, pails, chunks of wood) made it a dogleg affair. \u2014 Bryan Di Salvatore , New Yorker , 12 Sept. 1988",
"The short lines of the letter \u201ck\u201d are oblique lines.",
"gave the eavesdropper an oblique glance out of the corner of her eye",
"Noun",
"We each received a list of every muscle group (back, inner thighs, outer thighs, quads, biceps, obliques , upper abs, etc.), with detailed comments on which ones we needed to change. \u2014 anonymous , Cosmopolitan , November 2007",
"He hammered on my back with both fists, but I had a lot of muscle layer to protect back there. Twenty years of working on the lats and the lateral obliques . I got hold of his shirtfront with both hands and pulled him away from the wall and slammed him back up against it. \u2014 Robert B. Parker , Mortal Stakes , 1975",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"INF Ramon Urias took batting practice Monday and is progressing from a left oblique strain that landed him on the 10-Day IL on June 11. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Ross wants to make sure Suzuki (sprained left ring finger) and Gomes (left oblique strain) in particular get enough reps before returning. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Max Scherzer is recovering from an oblique strain, Jacob deGrom has a shoulder injury and Tylor Megill, an early-season breakout star, is working his way back from biceps tendinitis. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"Catcher Carson Kelly has been out since May 4 with a left oblique strain. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 30 May 2022",
"In a corresponding move, catcher Yan Gomes went on the IL with a left oblique strain. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"The catcher has been sidelined by an oblique strain this year (though he's been dominant when he's been available, with a 1.672 OPS and three homers in six games). \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 May 2022",
"Manager David Ross indicated Gomes\u2019 oblique strain is on the milder side, which is encouraging for an injury that can be tough to come back from. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"In his second appearance of his rehab assignment following a left oblique strain, right-hander Dean Kremer started for Triple-A Norfolk and pitched three hits and scoreless innings with six strikeouts. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The outing against the Hartford Yard Goats was pushed back a day from Tuesday, but New York manager Buck Showalter says there\u2019s been no setback in Scherzer\u2019s recovery from a strained oblique . \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 29 June 2022",
"Scherzer is currently recovering from a May oblique strain that is likely to keep him sidelined into July. \u2014 Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"New York said the scan detected a moderate-to-high grade strain of the internal oblique , a musle on the side that causes pain over the ribcage. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 20 May 2022",
"When WatchGuard first released the May 2021 software updates, the company made only the most oblique of references to the vulnerability. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Before Kelly strained his oblique in early May, Varsho only started two games behind the plate. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2022",
"Mets pitcher Max Scherzer is expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks with a strained oblique muscle in his left side, the latest blow to a New York pitching staff already missing ace Jacob deGrom. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 19 May 2022",
"Given that high barrier to good oblique training, this move is overrated\u2014and even worse, a potential injury waiting to happen. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Third baseman Josh Rojas has a strained right oblique and will not be ready for Opening Day, the third Diamondbacks position player expected to play a significant role to go down with an injury this spring. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English oblique, oblike, borrowed from Anglo-French oblic, oblique, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bquus \"slanting, transverse,\" from ob- \"against, facing\" + -l\u012bquus, of uncertain meaning and origin \u2014 more at ob-":"Adjective",
"They were painted in oil paints on old-fashioned canvas. But the manner of their portrayal was oblique and enigmatic, with an element of hide-and-seek in which hiding most often won out over seeking. \u2014 John Russell , New York Times Magazine , 11 Nov. 1990",
"The driveway met the street at an oblique angle, and a jutting corner of the customer's cinderblock building, a large power pole, and a berm of trash (pallets, pails, chunks of wood) made it a dogleg affair. \u2014 Bryan Di Salvatore , New Yorker , 12 Sept. 1988",
"The short lines of the letter \u201ck\u201d are oblique lines.",
"gave the eavesdropper an oblique glance out of the corner of her eye",
"Noun",
"We each received a list of every muscle group (back, inner thighs, outer thighs, quads, biceps, obliques , upper abs, etc.), with detailed comments on which ones we needed to change. \u2014 anonymous , Cosmopolitan , November 2007",
"He hammered on my back with both fists, but I had a lot of muscle layer to protect back there. Twenty years of working on the lats and the lateral obliques . I got hold of his shirtfront with both hands and pulled him away from the wall and slammed him back up against it. \u2014 Robert B. Parker , Mortal Stakes , 1975",
"INF Ramon Urias took batting practice Monday and is progressing from a left oblique strain that landed him on the 10-Day IL on June 11. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Ross wants to make sure Suzuki (sprained left ring finger) and Gomes (left oblique strain) in particular get enough reps before returning. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Max Scherzer is recovering from an oblique strain, Jacob deGrom has a shoulder injury and Tylor Megill, an early-season breakout star, is working his way back from biceps tendinitis. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"Catcher Carson Kelly has been out since May 4 with a left oblique strain. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 30 May 2022",
"In a corresponding move, catcher Yan Gomes went on the IL with a left oblique strain. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"The catcher has been sidelined by an oblique strain this year (though he's been dominant when he's been available, with a 1.672 OPS and three homers in six games). \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 May 2022",
"Manager David Ross indicated Gomes\u2019 oblique strain is on the milder side, which is encouraging for an injury that can be tough to come back from. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"In his second appearance of his rehab assignment following a left oblique strain, right-hander Dean Kremer started for Triple-A Norfolk and pitched three hits and scoreless innings with six strikeouts. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The outing against the Hartford Yard Goats was pushed back a day from Tuesday, but New York manager Buck Showalter says there\u2019s been no setback in Scherzer\u2019s recovery from a strained oblique . \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 29 June 2022",
"Scherzer is currently recovering from a May oblique strain that is likely to keep him sidelined into July. \u2014 Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"New York said the scan detected a moderate-to-high grade strain of the internal oblique , a musle on the side that causes pain over the ribcage. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 20 May 2022",
"When WatchGuard first released the May 2021 software updates, the company made only the most oblique of references to the vulnerability. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Before Kelly strained his oblique in early May, Varsho only started two games behind the plate. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 29 May 2022",
"Mets pitcher Max Scherzer is expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks with a strained oblique muscle in his left side, the latest blow to a New York pitching staff already missing ace Jacob deGrom. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 19 May 2022",
"Given that high barrier to good oblique training, this move is overrated\u2014and even worse, a potential injury waiting to happen. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Third baseman Josh Rojas has a strained right oblique and will not be ready for Opening Day, the third Diamondbacks position player expected to play a significant role to go down with an injury this spring. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1687, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"circa 1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English oblique, oblike, borrowed from Anglo-French oblic, oblique, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bquus \"slanting, transverse,\" from ob- \"against, facing\" + -l\u012bquus, of uncertain meaning and origin \u2014 more at ob-":"Adjective",
"This might suggest that a truer study of the psyche and its place in the world could be conducted via indirection or obliquity . \u2014 Matthew Bevis, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"But Ulman\u2019s fondness for understatement and obliquity makes the scene funny in a very deadpan way. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Nov. 2021",
"His empathy, obliquity and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. \u2014 Boyd Tonkin, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2021",
"It\u2019s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity , which feels like an evasion of theater\u2019s confrontational power. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Ice ages are caused when the tilt of a planet's axis shifts, known as obliquity , so these distinct ice ages formed separately to reflect times when Mars essentially wobbled on its axis. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 20 Jan. 2021",
"The planet's own motion dynamics dominate other influences, and obliquity usually has a smaller variation. \u2014 Fox News , 20 Nov. 2019",
"Its obliquity nods up and down this way between 22.1\u00ba and 24.5\u00ba regularly every 41,000 years. \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018",
"Mars\u2019 obliquity \u2014or the tilt of its axis\u2014has varied considerably over millions of years, shifting between 15 and 35 degrees over the course of millennia. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 12 Jan. 2018"
"Middle English obliquite \"slanted or crooked state,\" borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French obliquit\u00e9, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bquit\u0101t-, obl\u012bquit\u0101s \"condition of being at an angle, slant,\" from obl\u012bquus \"slanting, oblique entry 1 \" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity":""
"in a stroke, the March snowstorm obliterated our hopes for an early spring",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first team to obliterate the spell will win the series. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Summer travel plans are well into the developmental stage and will soon usher tourists in droves toward popular Western hot spots that continue to obliterate previous attendance records. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"Based in Needham, Tripadvisor\u2019s office was designed to obliterate any negative feelings about your commute with plenty of cold brew coffee on tap, pool tables, outdoor decks, and a fitness center with live instructors. \u2014 Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"Horford played the opening 12 minutes as if on a one-man mission to obliterate that notion. \u2014 Kyle Hightower, Hartford Courant , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Come 1974, Watergate would obliterate that name, and the three-mile stub became the Marina Freeway. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Crash investigators have over decades perfected the examination of wreckage in search of clues, but some impacts can obliterate evidence. \u2014 Alan Levin And Mary Schlangenstein/bloomberg, Time , 23 Mar. 2022",
"And to obliterate it, the breaking of the existing democratic rules would have to be tolerated. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Not only did Trump obliterate many of the coalitions that preceded him; the battle that briefly seemed to loom after January 6th, between pro- and anti-Trump Republicans, evaporated, too. \u2014 The New Yorker , 16 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin obl\u012bter\u0101tus, oblitter\u0101tus, past participle of obl\u012bter\u0101re, oblitter\u0101re \"to cause to be forgotten or fall into disuse, make disappear,\" from ob- \"against, facing\" + -l\u012bter\u0101re, litter\u0101re, verbal derivative of l\u012btera, littera letter entry 1 \u2014 more at ob-":""
"in a stroke, the March snowstorm obliterated our hopes for an early spring",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first team to obliterate the spell will win the series. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Summer travel plans are well into the developmental stage and will soon usher tourists in droves toward popular Western hot spots that continue to obliterate previous attendance records. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"Based in Needham, Tripadvisor\u2019s office was designed to obliterate any negative feelings about your commute with plenty of cold brew coffee on tap, pool tables, outdoor decks, and a fitness center with live instructors. \u2014 Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"Horford played the opening 12 minutes as if on a one-man mission to obliterate that notion. \u2014 Kyle Hightower, Hartford Courant , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Come 1974, Watergate would obliterate that name, and the three-mile stub became the Marina Freeway. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Crash investigators have over decades perfected the examination of wreckage in search of clues, but some impacts can obliterate evidence. \u2014 Alan Levin And Mary Schlangenstein/bloomberg, Time , 23 Mar. 2022",
"And to obliterate it, the breaking of the existing democratic rules would have to be tolerated. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Not only did Trump obliterate many of the coalitions that preceded him; the battle that briefly seemed to loom after January 6th, between pro- and anti-Trump Republicans, evaporated, too. \u2014 The New Yorker , 16 Apr. 2022"
"borrowed from Latin obl\u012bter\u0101tus, oblitter\u0101tus, past participle of obl\u012bter\u0101re, oblitter\u0101re \"to cause to be forgotten or fall into disuse, make disappear,\" from ob- \"against, facing\" + -l\u012bter\u0101re, litter\u0101re, verbal derivative of l\u012btera, littera letter entry 1 \u2014 more at ob-":""
"The final tableau is entrancing and haunting: as Aida and Radam\u00e8s die in isolation, Mariette and the rest of the motley company from the villa come back into view, staring into historical oblivion . \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"The World Trade Organization is facing one of its most dire moments, the culmination of years of slide toward oblivion and ineffectiveness. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 11 June 2022",
"That the company formerly known as Facebook is treading water, trying to stave off irrelevancy and oblivion by copying the cool kids of social media. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 29 May 2022",
"The moon has slipped out of orbit and now menaces the Earth, and a handful of scrappy astronauts may be all that stands in the way of the planet's oblivion . \u2014 Jesse Hassenger, The Week , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The Bengals are proving themselves after years in oblivion . \u2014 Mike Bass, The Enquirer , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Gantz now appears headed toward political near- oblivion , with polls showing his Blue and White party sinking to about five Knesset seats. \u2014 Noga Tarnopolsky, Los Angeles Times , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Unfortunately, many of them will slip through the cracks straight into oblivion and uselessness. \u2014 Alexey Shliakhouski, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"So many details have faded into oblivion , and connecting a name to a date to a set of circumstances was never my strength. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022"
"Middle English oblivioun, borrowed from Anglo-French oblivion, obliviun, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bvi\u014dn-, obl\u012bvi\u014d \"state of forgetting, dismissal from the memory,\" from obl\u012bv-, stem of obl\u012bv\u012bsc\u012b \"to forget, put out of mind\" (from ob- \"toward, facing\" + -l\u012bv\u012bsc\u012b, inchoative derivative of a stem l\u012bv- of uncertain meaning and origin) + -i\u014dn-, -i\u014d, suffix of action nouns formed from compound verbs \u2014 more at ob-":""
"They were pushing and shouting and oblivious to anyone not in their group. \u2014 P. J. O'Rourke , Rolling Stone , 14 Nov. 1996",
"Prentice looked up from his food, which he had been steadily shovelling in, completely oblivious of everyone. \u2014 Antonya Nelson , New Yorker , 9 Nov. 1992",
"Oblivious of any previous decisions not to stand together \u2026 , the three stood in a tight group \u2026 \u2014 Doris Lessing , The Good Terrorist , 1985",
"Father was oblivious to the man's speculative notice of his wife. \u2014 E. L. Doctorow , Ragtime , 1974",
"She rested now, frankly and fairly, in the shelter of his arms, and both were oblivious to the gale that rushed past them in quicker and stronger blasts. \u2014 Jack London , Burning Daylight , 1910",
"the out-of-state motorist claimed to be oblivious of the local speed limit, even though the signs must have been hard to miss",
"Obviously everyone needs to carry their weight but Gray isn't oblivious to her role on the team. \u2014 J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
"But the two women seemed oblivious to the gunshot, as well as to the explosions sounding nearby. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"The trailers hid the villain in plain sight while also trying to conceal the reveal, and MCU fans who were oblivious to the leaks were not prepared for the shock. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Needless to say, neither firm is oblivious to the moneymaking opportunities to be found in the ecosystem that has grown up around ESG, an ecosystem that looks more and more like a rent-seekers\u2019 Eden. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 7 May 2022",
"The folks inside Nashville\u2019s Municipal Auditorium, however, seemed oblivious to this cosmic disturbance and got to take in a rather upbeat show on an April evening in downtown Nashville. \u2014 Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Bailey seemed oblivious to the fact that some people wanted him on it. \u2014 al , 9 Mar. 2022",
"And the man who put the nail in the Packers\u2019 coffin was none other than Robbie Gould, the one kicker over the years who seemed oblivious to playing winter football along the lakefront. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Many of the educators seemed oblivious to the repression in their midst, participants said. \u2014 Haruka Sakaguchi, ProPublica , 30 Nov. 2021"
"Middle English, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bvi\u014dsus, from obl\u012bvi-, base of obl\u012bvi\u014dn-, obl\u012bvi\u014d \"state of forgetting, dismissal from the memory\" + -\u014dsus -ous \u2014 more at oblivion":""
"They were pushing and shouting and oblivious to anyone not in their group. \u2014 P. J. O'Rourke , Rolling Stone , 14 Nov. 1996",
"Prentice looked up from his food, which he had been steadily shovelling in, completely oblivious of everyone. \u2014 Antonya Nelson , New Yorker , 9 Nov. 1992",
"Oblivious of any previous decisions not to stand together \u2026 , the three stood in a tight group \u2026 \u2014 Doris Lessing , The Good Terrorist , 1985",
"Father was oblivious to the man's speculative notice of his wife. \u2014 E. L. Doctorow , Ragtime , 1974",
"She rested now, frankly and fairly, in the shelter of his arms, and both were oblivious to the gale that rushed past them in quicker and stronger blasts. \u2014 Jack London , Burning Daylight , 1910",
"the out-of-state motorist claimed to be oblivious of the local speed limit, even though the signs must have been hard to miss",
"Obviously everyone needs to carry their weight but Gray isn't oblivious to her role on the team. \u2014 J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
"But the two women seemed oblivious to the gunshot, as well as to the explosions sounding nearby. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"The trailers hid the villain in plain sight while also trying to conceal the reveal, and MCU fans who were oblivious to the leaks were not prepared for the shock. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"Needless to say, neither firm is oblivious to the moneymaking opportunities to be found in the ecosystem that has grown up around ESG, an ecosystem that looks more and more like a rent-seekers\u2019 Eden. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 7 May 2022",
"The folks inside Nashville\u2019s Municipal Auditorium, however, seemed oblivious to this cosmic disturbance and got to take in a rather upbeat show on an April evening in downtown Nashville. \u2014 Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Bailey seemed oblivious to the fact that some people wanted him on it. \u2014 al , 9 Mar. 2022",
"And the man who put the nail in the Packers\u2019 coffin was none other than Robbie Gould, the one kicker over the years who seemed oblivious to playing winter football along the lakefront. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Many of the educators seemed oblivious to the repression in their midst, participants said. \u2014 Haruka Sakaguchi, ProPublica , 30 Nov. 2021"
"Middle English, borrowed from Latin obl\u012bvi\u014dsus, from obl\u012bvi-, base of obl\u012bvi\u014dn-, obl\u012bvi\u014d \"state of forgetting, dismissal from the memory\" + -\u014dsus -ous \u2014 more at oblivion":""
": deviating from a square, circular, or spherical form by elongation in one dimension":[
"an oblong piece of paper",
"an oblong melon"
],
": something that is oblong":[
"These paintings, predominately black with vertical or horizontal bisections of white mixed with streaks of red, blue, or ochre, are reminiscent of \u2026 Mark Rothko's irradiated oblongs .",
"With 24 different styles to choose from, these lightweight oblong wraps can be tied around your waist or worn as a scarf, dress or head wrap. \u2014 Shivani Vora, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The bulk of its oblong body is silver-colored, with two black handles for easy carrying (which, naturally, also look like tiny arms). \u2014 Rachel Metz, CNN , 24 May 2022",
"There\u2019s also a chair shaped like an oblong human spine that rotates at grotesque angles. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Outdoors is presented like hung landscape paintings enclosed in frames of flung-open van doors or oblong windows. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The terraced gardens, which are anchored by an oblong pool and a folly of Greek columns, look like an old friend who has turned up in a splendid new suit. \u2014 Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Families live in oblong homes situated on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in an area notable for its abundant biodiversity. \u2014 V\u00edctor Bastidas, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The biggest challenge would be to re-create the honey bun\u2019s distinct oblong , fat spiral shape. \u2014 Ben Mimscooking Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The oblong \u2019s edges are soft, creating the illusion that the figure slightly glows. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English oblonge, oblong, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus \"of greater length than breadth,\" from ob-, perhaps in sense \"facing, against\" + longus \"having linear extent, long\" \u2014 more at ob- , long entry 1":"Adjective",
"It\u2019s the guy in front of the bench, though, who\u2019s taking the brunt of the obloquy for the way that whole mess ended. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 July 2021",
"This kind of bitter obloquy can be found in the editorial pages of many global publications. \u2014 Annabelle Timsit, Quartz , 29 Apr. 2021",
"The only freedom and independence are in learning to be equally indifferent to both praise and obloquy . \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 27 Aug. 2019",
"Years later, Adams wrote that his decision \u2018procured me anxiety, and obloquy \u2026. \u2014 James Hohmann, Washington Post , 8 June 2018",
"The cross-dressing women were not often the target of obloquy or mockery. \u2014 Longreads , 8 May 2018",
"Years later, Adams wrote that his decision \u2018procured me anxiety, and obloquy \u2026. \u2014 James Hohmann, Washington Post , 8 June 2018",
"The cross-dressing women were not often the target of obloquy or mockery. \u2014 Longreads , 8 May 2018",
"The obloquy that would fall upon them for having done nothing could have cost many of them their seats\u2014and perhaps jeopardized their party\u2019s control of both chambers. \u2014 Elizabeth Drew, New Republic , 21 Dec. 2017"
"Middle English obloquie, obloqui, borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French obloquie, borrowed from Late Latin obloquium, from obloqu\u012b \"to speak against, blame\" (going back to Latin, \"to break in on, interrupt,\" from ob- \"against\" + loqu\u012b \"to speak\") + Latin -ium, deverbal suffix of function or state \u2014 more at eloquent":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4-bl\u0259-kw\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obloquy abuse , vituperation , invective , obloquy , billingsgate mean vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval. abuse , the most general term, usually implies the anger of the speaker and stresses the harshness of the language. scathing verbal abuse vituperation implies fluent and sustained abuse. a torrent of vituperation invective implies a comparable vehemence but suggests greater verbal and rhetorical skill and may apply to a public denunciation. blistering political invective obloquy suggests defamation and consequent shame and disgrace. subjected to obloquy and derision billingsgate implies practiced fluency and variety of profane or obscene abuse. directed a stream of billingsgate at the cabdriver",
"Let's get right into it. The title of your book, Why We Suck , is pretty obnoxious . Are we really that bad? \u2014 Rachel Deahl , Boston Globe , 30 Nov. 2008",
"\"Not to sound obnoxious , but this downturn could be good for us,\" says Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Slide, in San Francisco. \"Some of our competitors are going to go out of business.\" \u2014 Daniel Lyons , Newsweek , 20 Oct. 2008",
"Now that many large cities are surrounded by Stygian fields of concrete tedium, urban sprawl looks like an obnoxious side effect of prosperity and decline. \u2014 Graham Robb , The Discovery of France , 2007",
"The teller's eyes widened as a customer poured thousands of pennies onto the counter, an intentionally obnoxious way to pay a high heating bill. \u2014 Erik Eckholm , New York Times , 26 June 2006",
"He said some really obnoxious things about his ex-girlfriend at the party.",
"Some teenagers were being loud and obnoxious .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Satire has always had an admonitory function, and besides, some people are so obnoxious that a writer has to slow-walk the reader through their awfulness. \u2014 Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic , 11 May 2022",
"No one could be faulted for seeing the incident as a slap-back at the showbiz establishment\u2019s most obnoxious figure. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 30 Mar. 2022",
"But as folks go back to the office, some find the sounds obnoxious \u2014 and annoying. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Last Resort is a restaurant and bar chain known for its rowdy roadhouse atmosphere and intentionally obnoxious staff. \u2014 Kathy Jumper, al , 17 Apr. 2022",
"This obnoxious process was required during Leadbetter's testing period because Steam Deck does not officially support a dual-boot option for multiple OS installs, even though fans have more recently come up with methods to do that. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 Apr. 2022",
"One of the friends spends an obnoxious amount of money on a painting that is just a white painting. \u2014 Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Audiences are less tolerant of cruel and obnoxious prank videos, especially when they are recorded in public spaces like university campuses. \u2014 Diana Dasrath, NBC News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Daughtry's energy and charisma make the character more tragic than obnoxious . \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Apr. 2022"
"He made an obscene gesture at the driver who cut him off.",
"The company's executives earn obscene salaries.",
"He spends an obscene amount of money on clothes.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If the judge finds the book is not obscene , the filing is dismissed. \u2014 Hannah Natanson, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"To crystallize the point, don\u2019t think that stocks that have fallen a great deal will return to some of their obscene valuations anytime soon, if ever. \u2014 Jim Osman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Earlier this year, Indiana lawmakers dealt with a bill that would have criminalized teachers and librarians who allowed children to be exposed to certain books deemed obscene . \u2014 Chloe Mcgowan, The Indianapolis Star , 8 June 2022",
"Californians are unsettled, anxious and, in some cases, livid over homelessness, soaring gas prices, obscene housing costs, crime and all manner of affronts that undermine California\u2019s golden promise \u2014 not to mention their day-to-day lives. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Fifty policemen with shotguns and pistols came out, surrounded the van, dragged me out, charged me with indecent exposure of obscene objects showing birth control, and sent me to jail for 20 days. \u2014 Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"Rashaan Gaulden was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after a similar obscene gesture toward Alabama fans following an interception return for a touchdown during a game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 6 June 2022",
"Curry hit an obscene 30-footer from the Chase Center logo to make it 79-62 with 2:13 left. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Last year, the state Republican Party also declined to punish an official who wrote an obscene email to a state senator, even as the party voted to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican in that same meeting. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 26 May 2022"
"borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, \"offensively indecent,\" borrowed from Latin obsc\u0113nus, obscaenus \"ill-omened, unpropitious, evoking disgust, loathsome, indecent, lewd,\" of uncertain origin":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obscene coarse , vulgar , gross , obscene , ribald mean offensive to good taste or morals. coarse implies roughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language. found the coarse humor of coworkers offensive vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding. a loud vulgar belch gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness. gross eating habits obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters. obscene language not allowed on the air ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent. entertained the campers with ribald folk songs",
"Well, the Ohio Supreme court in a four to three decision found that obscenity spoken by defendant. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
"The last federal obscenity case, which ended in a not-guilty verdict, occurred in 2010. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Feb. 2022",
"He was also charged April 22 in a different case with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of bail jumping and another misdemeanor count of sending computer messages containing a threat or obscenity . \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 May 2022",
"Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has reportedly been cleared on charges of \u2018 obscenity \u2019 15 years after Richard Gere kissed her at an event in India. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
"After the sinking, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a professional comic before turning to politics, alluded to the defiant obscenity without actually uttering it. \u2014 Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"The argument lies in the obscenity standard created by the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. California as well as the statute itself. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In a letter to Khan last month, Noorul Haq Qadri, the minister for religious affairs, criticized the Aurat March as violating Islamic principles and promoting obscenity . \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"This compromise between liberty and the common good is the right way to protect children from obscenity . \u2014 Anthony Leonardi, National Review , 21 July 2021"
"borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French obscenit\u00e9 \"indecent words or images,\" borrowed from Latin obsc\u0113nit\u0101t-, obsc\u0113nit\u0101s ( obscaenit\u0101t-, obscaenit\u0101s ) \"indecency, indecent language or behavior,\" from obsc\u0113nus, obscaenus \"ill-omened, unpropitious, evoking disgust, indecent, lewd\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at obscene":""
"More troubling still, universities can get away with obscurantism and enforced ideological conformism because of their enormous power over labor markets. \u2014 Joel Kotkin, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The history of its practice in Jerusalem presents a parade of eccentrics and fanatics, enlivened by obscurantism and riot. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Imbued with a sense of grandeur, France harks back to the Enlightenment to speak about fighting obscurantism in the world today and proffers its secular universalism as a model for modern societies. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Imbued with a sense of grandeur, France harks back to the Enlightenment to speak about fighting obscurantism in the world today and proffers its secular universalism as a model for modern societies. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Your homework assignment: Look up this exciting word \u2014 obscurantism . \u2014 Gary Gilson, Star Tribune , 26 Dec. 2020",
"The obscurantism isn\u2019t confined to talking heads and detached national politicians, either. \u2014 Tobias Hoonhout, National Review , 3 Sep. 2020",
"Peters seemed to others to be a genius at two things: mimicking the verbal pretentiousness and obscurantism of academic parlance and sweeping na\u00efve young women off their feet by means of an alchemy that remained mysterious to everyone else. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Some early reviewers of The Second Sleep, which was published in the U.K. at the start of September, gave the impression that Harris had issued a rather straightforward warning against the threat of religious obscurantism and fanaticism. \u2014 John Wilson, National Review , 5 Dec. 2019"
"borrowed from German Obscurantismus or French obscurantisme, from Latin obsc\u016brant-, obsc\u016brans, present participle of obsc\u016br\u0101re \"to darken, eclipse, conceal from knowledge\" + German -ismus, French -isme -ism \u2014 more at obscure entry 2":""
"Many people shared an obscure sense of gratification that [Dylan] Thomas had died young, as a poet should. \u2014 Adam Kirsch , New Yorker , 5 July 2004",
"But by 1830 the Boston Mission Board was desperate enough that it targeted an obscure sect of Oriental Christians, the Nestorians in faraway Iran, as a possibility for conversion. \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan , The Arabists , 1993",
"I knew they were special from their jeans and T-shirts, their knowing, ironic looks when obscure works of literature were referred to. \u2014 Julia Alvarez , How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents , 1991",
"Now at last Bacon could refer when he chose to his father's high position and his father's service\u2014and no man could say it was done for self-aggrandizement, as a son who is obscure bespeaks the glory of past forebears. \u2014 Catherine Drinker Bowen , Francis Bacon , 1963",
"The movie is full of obscure references that only pop culture enthusiasts will understand.",
"The origins of the language are obscure .",
"Verb",
"Throughout this book, the ground of fact becomes obscured entirely by a deep layer of speculative quicksand. \u2014 Helen Vendler , New Republic , 10 June 2002",
"But evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. \u2014 John Cheever , New Yorker , 13 Aug. 1990",
"\u2026 [Mr. Schuller's] \u2026 \"Early Jazz\" brought a sometimes Olympian precision to writing about an art that has often languished in the whale's belly of sociology, obscured by pretension and blubbery thinking. \u2014 Stanley Crouch , New York Times Book Review , 2 Apr. 1989",
"It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. \u2014 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein , 1818",
"The true history has been obscured by legends about what happened.",
"They accused the company of trying to obscure the fact that the product poses a health risk.",
"The demand for coherence is the reason stories that seem obscure and implausible in themselves come to feel like common sense even to people who are neither murderous nor crazy. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 18 May 2022",
"Back then, Son bought into the vision of an obscure and charismatic English teacher in Hangzhou. \u2014 William Pesek, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Once the functions on these sites are rolled out, this will be the first time that the general public will be exposed and encouraged to join a digital token market that, until now, may have been perceived as obscure and niche. \u2014 Chris Stokel-walker, Wired , 21 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a few golden nuggets to be mined even from the most unreadable, obscure , and self-serving of such memoirs. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Johns\u2019s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters \u2014 obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Sep. 2021",
"This is to try to capture and memorialize this volatile and evanescent mode of expression, with its references both obscure and shared by millions. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Until now, this definition was the subject of obscure and somewhat geeky debate. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 19 July 2021",
"As California\u2019s fire seasons have grown more devastating, a once- obscure term \u2014 red-flag warning \u2014 has become a frighteningly regular part of the Northern California vernacular, particularly in the late summer and early fall. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To truly obscure your location, the best thing to do is leave your phone at home or turn it off completely, McKinney said. \u2014 Danielle Abril, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"To truly obscure your location, the best thing to do is leave your phone at home or turn it off completely, McKinney said. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"The phrase intellectual property was coined in post-Revolutionary France to obscure the royal origins of monopoly and deflect attention from the true subject of intellectual property claims, which is not knowledge but markets. \u2014 Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic , 1 June 2021",
"Both those averages obscure some fairly horrifying losses. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"But like all averages, those numbers obscure regional differences. \u2014 Richard Mcgahey, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
"At times those parts obscure the central thread of the narrative. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
"These assumptions obscure some awkward truths of their own. \u2014 Os Keyes, Wired , 18 Oct. 2021"
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"Many people shared an obscure sense of gratification that [Dylan] Thomas had died young, as a poet should. \u2014 Adam Kirsch , New Yorker , 5 July 2004",
"But by 1830 the Boston Mission Board was desperate enough that it targeted an obscure sect of Oriental Christians, the Nestorians in faraway Iran, as a possibility for conversion. \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan , The Arabists , 1993",
"I knew they were special from their jeans and T-shirts, their knowing, ironic looks when obscure works of literature were referred to. \u2014 Julia Alvarez , How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents , 1991",
"Now at last Bacon could refer when he chose to his father's high position and his father's service\u2014and no man could say it was done for self-aggrandizement, as a son who is obscure bespeaks the glory of past forebears. \u2014 Catherine Drinker Bowen , Francis Bacon , 1963",
"The movie is full of obscure references that only pop culture enthusiasts will understand.",
"The origins of the language are obscure .",
"Verb",
"Throughout this book, the ground of fact becomes obscured entirely by a deep layer of speculative quicksand. \u2014 Helen Vendler , New Republic , 10 June 2002",
"But evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. \u2014 John Cheever , New Yorker , 13 Aug. 1990",
"\u2026 [Mr. Schuller's] \u2026 \"Early Jazz\" brought a sometimes Olympian precision to writing about an art that has often languished in the whale's belly of sociology, obscured by pretension and blubbery thinking. \u2014 Stanley Crouch , New York Times Book Review , 2 Apr. 1989",
"It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. \u2014 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein , 1818",
"The true history has been obscured by legends about what happened.",
"They accused the company of trying to obscure the fact that the product poses a health risk.",
"Noun",
"\u2026 who shall \u2026 through the palpable obscure find out his uncouth way \u2026 ? \u2014 John Milton , Paradise Lost , 1667",
"The demand for coherence is the reason stories that seem obscure and implausible in themselves come to feel like common sense even to people who are neither murderous nor crazy. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 18 May 2022",
"Back then, Son bought into the vision of an obscure and charismatic English teacher in Hangzhou. \u2014 William Pesek, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Once the functions on these sites are rolled out, this will be the first time that the general public will be exposed and encouraged to join a digital token market that, until now, may have been perceived as obscure and niche. \u2014 Chris Stokel-walker, Wired , 21 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a few golden nuggets to be mined even from the most unreadable, obscure , and self-serving of such memoirs. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Johns\u2019s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters \u2014 obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Sep. 2021",
"This is to try to capture and memorialize this volatile and evanescent mode of expression, with its references both obscure and shared by millions. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Until now, this definition was the subject of obscure and somewhat geeky debate. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 19 July 2021",
"As California\u2019s fire seasons have grown more devastating, a once- obscure term \u2014 red-flag warning \u2014 has become a frighteningly regular part of the Northern California vernacular, particularly in the late summer and early fall. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To truly obscure your location, the best thing to do is leave your phone at home or turn it off completely, McKinney said. \u2014 Danielle Abril, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"To truly obscure your location, the best thing to do is leave your phone at home or turn it off completely, McKinney said. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"The phrase intellectual property was coined in post-Revolutionary France to obscure the royal origins of monopoly and deflect attention from the true subject of intellectual property claims, which is not knowledge but markets. \u2014 Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic , 1 June 2021",
"Both those averages obscure some fairly horrifying losses. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"But like all averages, those numbers obscure regional differences. \u2014 Richard Mcgahey, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
"At times those parts obscure the central thread of the narrative. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
"These assumptions obscure some awkward truths of their own. \u2014 Os Keyes, Wired , 18 Oct. 2021"
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"Middle English, \"dark, unenlightened, incomprehensible,\" borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French oscur, obscur \"dark, dull, enigmatic,\" borrowed from Latin obsc\u016brus \"dim, dark, appearing faintly, imperfectly known, concealed from knowledge, incomprehensible,\" of uncertain origin":"Adjective",
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"\u2014 Tom Simon"
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"Many people shared an obscure sense of gratification that [Dylan] Thomas had died young, as a poet should. \u2014 Adam Kirsch , New Yorker , 5 July 2004",
"But by 1830 the Boston Mission Board was desperate enough that it targeted an obscure sect of Oriental Christians, the Nestorians in faraway Iran, as a possibility for conversion. \u2014 Robert D. Kaplan , The Arabists , 1993",
"I knew they were special from their jeans and T-shirts, their knowing, ironic looks when obscure works of literature were referred to. \u2014 Julia Alvarez , How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents , 1991",
"Now at last Bacon could refer when he chose to his father's high position and his father's service\u2014and no man could say it was done for self-aggrandizement, as a son who is obscure bespeaks the glory of past forebears. \u2014 Catherine Drinker Bowen , Francis Bacon , 1963",
"The movie is full of obscure references that only pop culture enthusiasts will understand.",
"The origins of the language are obscure .",
"Verb",
"Throughout this book, the ground of fact becomes obscured entirely by a deep layer of speculative quicksand. \u2014 Helen Vendler , New Republic , 10 June 2002",
"But evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. \u2014 John Cheever , New Yorker , 13 Aug. 1990",
"\u2026 [Mr. Schuller's] \u2026 \"Early Jazz\" brought a sometimes Olympian precision to writing about an art that has often languished in the whale's belly of sociology, obscured by pretension and blubbery thinking. \u2014 Stanley Crouch , New York Times Book Review , 2 Apr. 1989",
"It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. \u2014 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein , 1818",
"The true history has been obscured by legends about what happened.",
"They accused the company of trying to obscure the fact that the product poses a health risk.",
"Noun",
"\u2026 who shall \u2026 through the palpable obscure find out his uncouth way \u2026 ? \u2014 John Milton , Paradise Lost , 1667",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The demand for coherence is the reason stories that seem obscure and implausible in themselves come to feel like common sense even to people who are neither murderous nor crazy. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 18 May 2022",
"Back then, Son bought into the vision of an obscure and charismatic English teacher in Hangzhou. \u2014 William Pesek, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Once the functions on these sites are rolled out, this will be the first time that the general public will be exposed and encouraged to join a digital token market that, until now, may have been perceived as obscure and niche. \u2014 Chris Stokel-walker, Wired , 21 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a few golden nuggets to be mined even from the most unreadable, obscure , and self-serving of such memoirs. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Johns\u2019s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters \u2014 obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Sep. 2021",
"This is to try to capture and memorialize this volatile and evanescent mode of expression, with its references both obscure and shared by millions. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Until now, this definition was the subject of obscure and somewhat geeky debate. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 19 July 2021",
"As California\u2019s fire seasons have grown more devastating, a once- obscure term \u2014 red-flag warning \u2014 has become a frighteningly regular part of the Northern California vernacular, particularly in the late summer and early fall. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To truly obscure your location, the best thing to do is leave your phone at home or turn it off completely, McKinney said. \u2014 Danielle Abril, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"To truly obscure your location, the best thing to do is leave your phone at home or turn it off completely, McKinney said. \u2014 Heather Kelly, Tatum Hunter, Danielle Abril, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"The phrase intellectual property was coined in post-Revolutionary France to obscure the royal origins of monopoly and deflect attention from the true subject of intellectual property claims, which is not knowledge but markets. \u2014 Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic , 1 June 2021",
"Both those averages obscure some fairly horrifying losses. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"But like all averages, those numbers obscure regional differences. \u2014 Richard Mcgahey, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
"At times those parts obscure the central thread of the narrative. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
"These assumptions obscure some awkward truths of their own. \u2014 Os Keyes, Wired , 18 Oct. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
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"Middle English obscuren, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French obscurer, oscurir, borrowed from Latin obsc\u016br\u0101re \"to darken, eclipse, dim, conceal from knowledge, make difficult to comprehend,\" verbal derivative of obsc\u016brus \"dim, dark, imperfectly known, concealed from knowledge, incomprehensible\" \u2014 more at obscure entry 1":"Verb",
"Middle English, \"dark, unenlightened, incomprehensible,\" borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French oscur, obscur \"dark, dull, enigmatic,\" borrowed from Latin obsc\u016brus \"dim, dark, appearing faintly, imperfectly known, concealed from knowledge, incomprehensible,\" of uncertain origin":"Adjective",
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obscure Adjective obscure , dark , vague , enigmatic , cryptic , ambiguous , equivocal mean not clearly understandable. obscure implies a hiding or veiling of meaning through some inadequacy of expression or withholding of full knowledge. obscure poems dark implies an imperfect or clouded revelation often with ominous or sinister suggestion. muttered dark hints of revenge vague implies a lack of clear formulation due to inadequate conception or consideration. a vague sense of obligation enigmatic stresses a puzzling, mystifying quality. enigmatic occult writings cryptic implies a purposely concealed meaning. cryptic hints of hidden treasure ambiguous applies to language capable of more than one interpretation. an ambiguous directive equivocal applies to language left open to differing interpretations with the intention of deceiving or evading. moral precepts with equivocal phrasing",
"Parker leveraged his astute judgment of human nature to pluck Presley from obscurity as a truck driver and move him quickly from a traveling circus-like roadshow to the pinnacle of mainstream popularity. \u2014 Brad Auerbach, SPIN , 22 June 2022",
"The group vaulted from obscurity to national attention last week with the disclosure that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"The group vaulted from obscurity to national attention last week with the disclosure that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
"Emerging from obscurity to become a cult classic, Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski's Possession is one of the most fascinating, singular visions in horror filmmaking. \u2014 Katie Rife, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Being a head chef is hard enough, but being a 21-year-old plucked from obscurity to become a head chef for none other than Prince Charles? \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 3 June 2022",
"Which is strange, since no American of the 19th century -- not even Lincoln -- enjoyed a more meteoric rise from obscurity . \u2014 Allen C. Guelzo, National Review , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Chaves returned to the country in 2019 after decades abroad and rose from obscurity in just months by presenting himself as a maverick outsider, skillfully exploiting popular discontent with the Latin American political establishment. \u2014 David Bola\u00f1os, BostonGlobe.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Castillo, 52, a former rural school teacher, emerged from obscurity last year to unexpectedly win the presidency for the socialist Peru Libre party. \u2014 Maria Cervantes, Bloomberg.com , 29 Mar. 2022"
"Middle English obscurite, borrowed from Anglo-French oscurt\u00e9, obscurit\u00e9, borrowed from Latin obsc\u016brit\u0101t-, obsc\u016brit\u0101s, from obsc\u016brus \"dim, dark, imperfectly known, concealed from knowledge, incomprehensible\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at obscure entry 1":""
"Middle English obsequie , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin obsequiae (plural), alteration of Latin exsequiae , from exsequi to follow out, execute \u2014 more at execution":""
"the murder victim's father was the chief mourner at the obsequies"
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"What starts at a Planck and ends with the entire observable universe? \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"These are elements of a new paranoid style among fan communities that already has many observable hallmarks. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022",
"The flaw in mass mail-in voting, which Democrats would make universal, is that nothing is observable except the counting. \u2014 WSJ , 26 Mar. 2021",
"The phenomenon is observable in fMRI scans; when someone is exposed to stressful stimuli, their amygdala lights up like a Christmas tree. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"This is understandable, as these behaviors are observable . \u2014 Nicole Heimann, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Mobile money has grown 10-fold in 10 years Transaction value is a big marker but the growth of mobile money is observable through other metrics. \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 31 Mar. 2022",
"For the past century, and especially the past half-century, there\u2019s been an observable gap in economic competence between the two major parties. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 3 May 2022",
"In this less personal format, schools prioritize observable metrics such as the completion of assignments above facilitating personal inquiry. \u2014 WSJ , 3 May 2022"
"Since the holiday fell on a Sunday this year, the official observance shifted to Monday. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 20 June 2022",
"Although Juneteenth was Sunday, like other federal holidays that fall on a weekend, the official observance is shifted to the neighboring weekday. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
"Meeting a day late this week following the official observance of the Juneteenth holiday, City Council planned to distribute $444,000 in federal Community Development Block Grants to 10 local nonprofits. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 20 June 2022",
"The observance was organized by Grenfell United, a group of survivors and bereaved families advocating for change following the tragedy. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"The first national observance of the day took place on June 14, 1877, 100 years after the original resolution. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 14 June 2022",
"The first national observance of the day took place on June 14, 1877, 100 years after the original resolution. \u2014 Leada Gore, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"The goal in reaching those spiritually wavering is not only the observance of ritual but the stirring of Jewish consciousness, the lighting of the spiritual fire, allowing those reached to chart their own direction. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 16 May 2022",
"But as of April 23, two weeks before the observance , 30 homes in Arizona had already burned to the ground in the 19,000-acre Tunnel Fire outside of Flagstaff. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 4 May 2022"
"A particularly observant child, he noticed even the slightest changes in the classroom.",
"Good reporters are keenly observant of everything around them.",
"The family is strictly observant .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The observant Walton noticed that Bird always stayed at the restaurant during the scores of postgame gatherings until the end, attempting to stealthily sprinkle $100 bills on the tables for servers. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"His non- observant family fled their native Czechoslovakia during World War II to Singapore, and then left to India after Japan began attacking there. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"In the summer of 2020 Maggie Gyllenhaal cast him as a sensitive and observant pool attendant who catches the eyes of both Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson in her awards season darling and directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, his first feature. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
"Wilson was arrested on Jan. 1, 2021, at the Mrs. Potato Restaurant in Orlando, after an observant restaurant manager suspecting abuse called 911. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Her inner steel and her observant Catholicism (represented here by Reiter frequently handling rosary beads) have seen her through the assassinations of JFK and Bobby, and the deaths of two other children in airplane accidents. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"Oliver brings a great deal of observant naturalism to an underwritten role, but there are few sparks between her and the too-boyish Alwyn. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"His adviser, Eric Feron, remembered Bayraktar as a dedicated craftsman and an observant Muslim, with a passion for youth education. \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"The three are observant Jews and take a break from the internet each week to observe the religion\u2019s day-long prohibition on technology during the sabbath. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 26 Mar. 2022"
"I'm not criticizing that kind of clothing. I'm just making an observation about the style.",
"Her constant observations about the weather bored me.",
"These facts are based on close observation of the birds in the wild.",
"Observations made using the telescope have led to new theories.",
"Some interesting observations came from the study.",
"He recorded his observations in a notebook.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In an interview in late May, a soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint at the western edge of the bridge cautioned that Russian artillery spotters had the span \u2014 clear of debris at the time \u2014 under observation and opened fire whenever a car drove over. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"In a statement Sunday night, Van Hollen said he has been advised by doctors to remain under observation at the Washington, D.C., hospital for a few days out of an abundance of caution. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"This tree is under observation and may be listed on official invasive species lists in the near future. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 May 2022",
"The city had 7,776 people hospitalized and more than 220,000 under medical observation , China Daily reported Thursday. \u2014 Fox News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"In the summer of that year, a joint Cambridge and Oxford expedition set up cameras to keep a large portion of the loch under constant observation . \u2014 Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The bills would require patients to pick up the pills at a medical facility rather than receive them in the mail, and in South Dakota, take the pills under observation by a medical professional. \u2014 al , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Both the resistance and aerobic groups exercised under observation for 60 minutes, three times a week. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The individual is asymptomatic and is now isolating and under observation at private holiday accommodations, Brown said. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Other pre- observation activities and further tests are set to be conducted this week. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 17 Mar. 2021"
"I'm not criticizing that kind of clothing. I'm just making an observation about the style.",
"Her constant observations about the weather bored me.",
"These facts are based on close observation of the birds in the wild.",
"Observations made using the telescope have led to new theories.",
"Some interesting observations came from the study.",
"He recorded his observations in a notebook.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In an interview in late May, a soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint at the western edge of the bridge cautioned that Russian artillery spotters had the span \u2014 clear of debris at the time \u2014 under observation and opened fire whenever a car drove over. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"In a statement Sunday night, Van Hollen said he has been advised by doctors to remain under observation at the Washington, D.C., hospital for a few days out of an abundance of caution. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"This tree is under observation and may be listed on official invasive species lists in the near future. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 May 2022",
"The city had 7,776 people hospitalized and more than 220,000 under medical observation , China Daily reported Thursday. \u2014 Fox News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"In the summer of that year, a joint Cambridge and Oxford expedition set up cameras to keep a large portion of the loch under constant observation . \u2014 Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The bills would require patients to pick up the pills at a medical facility rather than receive them in the mail, and in South Dakota, take the pills under observation by a medical professional. \u2014 al , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Both the resistance and aerobic groups exercised under observation for 60 minutes, three times a week. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The individual is asymptomatic and is now isolating and under observation at private holiday accommodations, Brown said. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Other pre- observation activities and further tests are set to be conducted this week. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 17 Mar. 2021"
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"Middle French, from Latin observation-, observatio , from observare":"Noun and Adjective"
"Many people imagining a telescope might be thinking of one of those giant telescopes sitting in an observatory on a mountaintop somewhere. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 May 2022",
"Around the same time that the Terminal Warehouse was going up, the Boston Brahmin Percival Lowell wanted to establish an astronomical observatory under the dark, clear skies of the Arizona territory. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"The unique spherical feature, which is meant to resemble a black hole, acts as an observatory of sorts and provides guests with uninterrupted 360-degree views. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 4 May 2022",
"Don't miss a visit to the nearby Bazaruto Center for Scientific Study, which was co-founded with Kisawa as an African ocean observatory . \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Only then will an observatory that has been in development for the past 25 years at last be ready to truly go to work. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger, Time , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Even as the network came back online the following day, smaller disruptions plagued it throughout the week, according to data from the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA), an internet connectivity observatory affiliated with Georgia Tech. \u2014 Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired , 1 Mar. 2022",
"High winds and dry, snow-free conditions will produce these ash clouds intermittently, the observatory said in a statement, adding that there is no eruption in place. \u2014 Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Nov. 2021",
"High winds and dry, snow-free conditions will produce these ash clouds intermittently, the observatory said in a statement, adding that there is no eruption in place. \u2014 Mark Thiessen, ajc , 17 Nov. 2021"
"That newness means many will have questions about the holiday's significance and how best to observe it. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The Gamecocks granted The Associated Press behind-the-scenes access to their Final Four experience, a chance to observe them away from the public spotlight. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Married men can already be ordained as priests in some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which follow the pope but observe some Orthodox practices including married clergy. \u2014 Francis X. Rocca, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The Russian Orthodox Church, the largest Orthodox congregation, said celebrants needed to wear masks and observe social distancing at Christmas services. \u2014 Fox News , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Russian Orthodox Church, the largest Orthodox congregation, said celebrants must wear masks and observe social distancing at services. \u2014 Jim Heintz, ajc , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Attendees are requested to wear face masks and observe social distancing recommendations. \u2014 Post-tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"President Biden signed legislation to observe Juneteenth as a federal holiday. \u2014 Kyle Stucker, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Residents and staff are required to wear a face mask and observe social distancing. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French observer , from Latin observare to guard, watch, observe, from ob- in the way, toward + servare to keep \u2014 more at conserve":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for observe keep , observe , celebrate , commemorate mean to notice or honor a day, occasion, or deed. keep stresses the idea of not neglecting or violating. kept the Sabbath by refraining from work observe suggests marking the occasion by ceremonious performance. not all holidays are observed nationally celebrate suggests acknowledging an occasion by festivity. traditionally celebrates Thanksgiving with a huge dinner commemorate suggests that an occasion is marked by observances that remind one of the origin and significance of the event. commemorate Memorial Day with the laying of wreaths",
"Bob Gottlieb\u2019s obsession with plastic purses does not go undocumented. \u2014 Mary Norris, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"Experience-minded leaders can also help reintroduce customer obsession to their boards, using cross-department insights to build a competitive edge. \u2014 Sara Jurmain Richter, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Streaming has, over the past decade, created an ecosystem in which obsession and oddity can be measured and monetized like never before. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 29 June 2022",
"There are so many quirky traits that each of your characters has, like Oliver\u2019s obsession with dips. \u2014 Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"While the show is undoubtedly carried by Atkinson\u2019s Chaplin-esque physical humor, the plot \u2014 about one man\u2019s obsession \u2014 can be found in even the greatest literary works. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"While Documenta Fifteen\u2019s obsession with collectivity can feel, at times, dogmatic and overly repetitive, the show also contains a great deal of magic. \u2014 Cassidy George, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
"But the Texas resolution shows how thoroughly Trump\u2019s obsession with the election has become ingrained as a core belief for his party. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"But the Texas resolution shows how thoroughly Trump's obsession with the election has become ingrained as a core belief for his party. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022"
"He was fascinated by the actress and tracking her every move had become an obsession .",
"She has an obsession about cleanliness.",
"Her concern about cleanliness approaches the level of obsession .",
"Money has become an obsession for him.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bob Gottlieb\u2019s obsession with plastic purses does not go undocumented. \u2014 Mary Norris, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"Experience-minded leaders can also help reintroduce customer obsession to their boards, using cross-department insights to build a competitive edge. \u2014 Sara Jurmain Richter, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Streaming has, over the past decade, created an ecosystem in which obsession and oddity can be measured and monetized like never before. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 29 June 2022",
"There are so many quirky traits that each of your characters has, like Oliver\u2019s obsession with dips. \u2014 Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"While the show is undoubtedly carried by Atkinson\u2019s Chaplin-esque physical humor, the plot \u2014 about one man\u2019s obsession \u2014 can be found in even the greatest literary works. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"While Documenta Fifteen\u2019s obsession with collectivity can feel, at times, dogmatic and overly repetitive, the show also contains a great deal of magic. \u2014 Cassidy George, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
"But the Texas resolution shows how thoroughly Trump\u2019s obsession with the election has become ingrained as a core belief for his party. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"But the Texas resolution shows how thoroughly Trump's obsession with the election has become ingrained as a core belief for his party. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022"
"Losing weight can be an obsession that results in the avoidance of certain foods."
]
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"examples":[
"He was fascinated by the actress and tracking her every move had become an obsession .",
"She has an obsession about cleanliness.",
"Her concern about cleanliness approaches the level of obsession .",
"Money has become an obsession for him.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bob Gottlieb\u2019s obsession with plastic purses does not go undocumented. \u2014 Mary Norris, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"Experience-minded leaders can also help reintroduce customer obsession to their boards, using cross-department insights to build a competitive edge. \u2014 Sara Jurmain Richter, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Streaming has, over the past decade, created an ecosystem in which obsession and oddity can be measured and monetized like never before. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 29 June 2022",
"There are so many quirky traits that each of your characters has, like Oliver\u2019s obsession with dips. \u2014 Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"While the show is undoubtedly carried by Atkinson\u2019s Chaplin-esque physical humor, the plot \u2014 about one man\u2019s obsession \u2014 can be found in even the greatest literary works. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"While Documenta Fifteen\u2019s obsession with collectivity can feel, at times, dogmatic and overly repetitive, the show also contains a great deal of magic. \u2014 Cassidy George, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
"But the Texas resolution shows how thoroughly Trump\u2019s obsession with the election has become ingrained as a core belief for his party. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"But the Texas resolution shows how thoroughly Trump's obsession with the election has become ingrained as a core belief for his party. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022"
"An obsessive documenter, Zappa recorded most rehearsals and live performances in audio and video formats. \u2014 Mauro Orru, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
"Zappa, who died in 1993 of prostate cancer at the age of 52, was an obsessive documentarian of his own work, and his vault contains a substantial amount of unreleased material. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"Meticulously detailed endnotes supply every poem\u2019s bibliographical history and track Auden\u2019s obsessive tinkerings and revisions. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"It has been shown in randomized clinical trials to ease depression, anxiety, obsessive thinking, eating and sleep disorders, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder and more. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"According to researchers, this medicine can also help dial down negative or obsessive thought patterns, a common symptom of generalized anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. \u2014 Melissa Whippo, Glamour , 23 June 2022",
"Giacometti was well aware of his own obsessive nature. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 15 June 2022",
"Johnson\u2019s obsessive nature is a blessing and a curse. \u2014 Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"An endlessly quotable and uproariously funny insight into the obsessive nature of those who work in fashion, the film also benefits from brilliant supporting performances by Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 10 Nov. 2021"
": an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions or both that cause significant distress, are time-consuming or interfere with normal daily functioning, and are recognized by the individual affected as excessive or unreasonable":[
"\u2014 abbreviation OCD"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Psilocybin, which the intestines convert into psilocin, a chemical with psychoactive properties, is also showing promise in combating cluster headaches, anxiety, anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and various forms of substance abuse. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"Smith and his brothers have dealt with obsessive-compulsive disorder , autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Generational trauma does increase the risk for PTSD, as well as anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia, said Dr. Gayani DeSilva, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Southern California. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Growing up in Fremont, Calif., Ali was a chubby, comic book-loving boy with severe allergies, obsessive-compulsive disorder and a Harry Potter-ish scar on his forehead from when he was hit by a motorcyclist. \u2014 Jean Guerrero Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Her 15-year-old daughter, Jean, is a talented gymnast diagnosed with high-functioning autism as well as anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder . \u2014 Carey Goldberg, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
"Dell lives with obsessive-compulsive disorder , and like many people in the United States, the Covid-19 pandemic has posed huge challenges for her. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Fluvoxamine was proposed as a possible antiviral in 2021 due to its mechanisms of action for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder . \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Some might have more inclination to fall into ruminating: people experiencing depression, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder , those with phobias, or persons with post-traumatic stress disorder. \u2014 Alex Wagner, SPIN , 27 Apr. 2022"
"It may not be welcome news in her home state of Pennsylvania, but chemist Cynthia Kuper could help make steel obsolete . Experimenting with carbon nanotubes, structures a few atoms wide but 100 times stronger and much lighter than steel, Kuper calls her work an \"amusement park discovery.\" \u2014 Joanna Chung , Newsweek , 23 Sept. 2002",
"He exercised a right so rare, at this the fag-end of the century, as to be practically obsolete . The most fundamental right of all. The right to be the good guy. \u2014 Zadie Smith , White Teeth , 2000",
"I never had parents, really. My mom was gone, my dad was at work or with his girlfriends, we had baby-sitters. My parents were obsolete . \u2014 Jonathan Kozol , Voices From the Future , 1993",
"The system was made obsolete by their invention.",
"I was told my old printer is obsolete and I can't get replacement parts.",
"Verb",
"While many \u2026 do describe various small, quick-loading 35mm film cartridges, modern technology has obsoleted these. \u2014 Herbert Keppler , Popular Photography , November 1993",
"\u2026 older cpu's whose speed and efficiency never were fully tapped before they were effectively obsoleted by their manufacturers \u2026 \u2014 Edith Myers , Datamation , November 1977",
"For radio itself deliberately obsoletes today what it built yesterday. \u2014 David Sarnoff , Television , 1936",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But Apple hates the idea (shocker) because that means about a billion devices will become obsolete . \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Recently, though, those forecasts have rapidly become obsolete as new data has rolled in. \u2014 Molly Smith, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"But the model had also become obsolete , Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, the agency\u2019s CEO, told ProPublica and THE CITY. \u2014 ProPublica , 9 June 2022",
"The way that generation uses social media more generally could render years of work to spot and identify public signs of upcoming violence obsolete , social media experts warn. \u2014 Naomi Nix And Cat Zakrzewski, Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022",
"The way that the generation uses social media more generally could render years of work to spot and identify public signs of upcoming violence obsolete , social media experts warn. \u2014 Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Why not reduce shipping costs by repealing the obsolete Jones Act? \u2014 Lawrence H. Summers, Time , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The Second World War made this mood of permissiveness obsolete . \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"In this magical world, magic itself has become obsolete with the onset of technology and these boys live in a very familiar suburban landscape. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"With a mission to obsolete the use of bullets, reduce social conflict, and assist the judicial system, the company\u2019s products have been observing heightened demand even during the pandemic. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 29 Oct. 2021",
"With a mission to obsolete the use of bullets, reduce social conflict, and assist the judicial system, the company\u2019s products have been observing heightened demand even during the pandemic. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Issuing passwords is simple, low-cost and can obsolete several pages from the cyber criminal's playbook. \u2014 Rob Cheng, Forbes , 6 Apr. 2021",
"Why would SpaceX want to obsolete its own, dominant products? \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 3 May 2018"
"Latin obsoletus , from past participle of obsolescere to grow old, become disused, perhaps from ob- toward + sol\u0113re to be accustomed":"Adjective and Verb"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obsolete Adjective old , ancient , venerable , antique , antiquated , archaic , obsolete mean having come into existence or use in the more or less distant past. old may apply to either actual or merely relative length of existence. old houses an old sweater of mine ancient applies to occurrence, existence, or use in or survival from the distant past. ancient accounts of dragons venerable stresses the impressiveness and dignity of great age. the family's venerable patriarch antique applies to what has come down from a former or ancient time. collected antique Chippendale furniture antiquated implies being discredited or outmoded or otherwise inappropriate to the present time. antiquated teaching methods archaic implies having the character or characteristics of a much earlier time. the play used archaic language to convey a sense of period obsolete may apply to something regarded as no longer acceptable or useful even though it is still in existence. a computer that makes earlier models obsolete",
"The conclusion of the long, deliberate regulatory process is expected to be a welcome relief for families who have seen the lack of vaccination among children as a major obstacle to intergenerational gatherings. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"There are also instances of possible plot elements that are teased and should have been used but weren\u2019t, like when a massive, aggressive prisoner was teased repeatedly, directly teased as an obstacle to the protagonists, and then... nothing happen. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Musk, who is Twitter's largest individual shareholder, likely could have gotten more details on bot activity at the company without publicly raising the issue as a potential obstacle to a deal, Zino reasoned. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 16 May 2022",
"The White House opposes settlement construction and views it as an obstacle to any eventual peace agreement with the Palestinians. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"The White House opposes settlement construction and views it as an obstacle to any eventual peace agreement with the Palestinians. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 12 May 2022",
"Their son Telemachus, who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Their son Telemachus, who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Amazon has poured resources into fighting unionization efforts, however, regarding unions as an obstacle to business flexibility and warehouse efficiency. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 19 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin obstaculum , from obstare to stand in front of, from ob- in the way + stare to stand \u2014 more at ob- , stand":""
"Two weeks later, during a checkup with her obstetrician , a new ultrasound image showed that Human Coalition had gotten it wrong. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian obstetrician who introduced hand washing into medical practice, was ostracized. \u2014 WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"In an interview at his clinic in the coastal town of Moruya, Dr. Holland, an obstetrician , recalled sheltering from the fires in his office. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"An obstetrician gave Joice, who was 39 weeks along, the okay to see the show. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Suzanne Stammler, an Air Force obstetrician who was brought to Ramstein from her base in England. \u2014 Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Another thing many women don\u2019t realize is that not every hospital has an obstetrician there 24/7. \u2014 Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica , 10 May 2022",
"After staunching the bleeding, an obstetrician wanted to perform a procedure called a dilation and curettage \u2014 commonly referred to as a D&C \u2014 to remove the tissue from the uterus. \u2014 Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News , 6 May 2022",
"Albert Hsu, an obstetrician -gynecologist in Columbia, Mo., said the Missouri health department\u2019s wastewater monitoring has helped persuade some pregnant patients to get vaccinated. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022"
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"1826, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02cc\u00e4b-st\u0259-\u02c8trish-\u0259n",
"\u02cc\u00e4b-st\u0259-\u02c8tri-sh\u0259n"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115834",
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a branch of medical science that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The two fourth-year students plan to enter the field of obstetrics and will soon choose where to spend four years of their lives in training. \u2014 Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star , 30 June 2022",
"Comprehensive training in women\u2019s and pregnant people\u2019s health care is a priority for future physicians looking to practice obstetrics and gynecology, and Bartz fears many of them will avoid states in which such training is not offered. \u2014 Scientific American , 29 June 2022",
"Pediatric and obstetrics and gynecology offices in several states contacted by NBC News shared similar experiences of desperate parents and caregivers asking for samples and being given a sparing amount. \u2014 Erik Ortiz, NBC News , 20 May 2022",
"In 2014, Johnson was vice chair of UCLA\u2019s obstetrics and gynecology department when an employee complained to him about Heaps\u2019 inappropriate comments. \u2014 Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The doctors, who are affiliated with the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, weren't involved in the study. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Coates, who practiced obstetrics and gynecology in the central Vermont area in the 1970s, is now retired. \u2014 Wilson Ring, USA TODAY , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Coates, who practiced obstetrics and gynecology in the central Vermont area in the 1970s, is now retired. \u2014 CBS News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Inspiration came to the professor of obstetrics , gynecology and reproductive sciences in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Gonzales v. Carhart case that year. \u2014 Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022"
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"1816, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4b-",
"\u0259b-\u02c8ste-triks",
"\u0259b-\u02c8ste-triks, \u00e4b-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125114",
"type":[
"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
"The Storkels\u2019 dark romp is a tragi-comedy about the limits of free enterprise and the obstinacy of an eccentric genius. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"In their view, the obstinacy of the unvaccinated minority has caused suffering for all. \u2014 Eliza Fawcett And Alex Putterman, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Thanks to Hungarian obstinacy , the embargo will allow for pipeline deliveries to Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
"The efforts of President Biden and Congressional Democrats to pass common sense gun legislation\u2014which is supported by the majority of Americans\u2014will face dogged opposition not only in the form of Republican obstinacy . \u2014 Samuel L. Perry, Time , 25 May 2022",
"Most Americans reject the obstinacy of Ms. Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s former colleagues. \u2014 Jason L. Riley, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"In their view, the obstinacy of the unvaccinated minority has caused suffering for all. \u2014 Eliza Fawcett And Alex Putterman, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Sep. 2021",
"In their view, the obstinacy of the unvaccinated minority has caused suffering for all. \u2014 Eliza Fawcett And Alex Putterman, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Sep. 2021",
"That reality hasn\u2019t changed Washington\u2019s self-defeating obstinacy in dealing with Iran. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 11 Mar. 2022"
": stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":[
"obstinate resistance to change"
]
},
"examples":[
"More than 30 cities had sued the gun industry for the costs of violence on their streets. Cuomo had brashly stepped into the legal swamp, hoping he could be the guy to force concessions from an obstinate industry. \u2014 Matt Bai , Newsweek , 5 Feb. 2001",
"With The New York Times calling Klein \"a weak nominee\" and editorializing that the administration should withdraw him, and with his opponents obstinate and apparently committed, he seemed for a moment to be in serious trouble. \u2014 John Heilemann , Wired , November 2000",
"What did they know of life? All they knew was how to parrot the stock phrases of their profession and to continue to be obstinate until somebody, somewhere, paid up. \u2014 Alexander McCall Smith , The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency , 1998",
"When my father finished telling the story, he looked at me, then looked away. A moment of silence lodged between us, an old and obstinate silence. \u2014 Bernard Cooper , Harper's , August 1992",
"his obstinate refusal to obey",
"My parents remain as obstinate as ever.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While many Big Tech companies have fought the right-to-repair movement, opposing dozens of state and federal bills that would force manufacturers to sell necessary repair items to customers, Apple has a reputation for being particularly obstinate . \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Sadly, many Western politicians and intellectuals remain obstinate . \u2014 Alexander William Salter, National Review , 22 July 2021",
"There was nothing stopping the NCAA from working toward a compromise and avoid running afoul of this Supreme Court case; its decision to fight now looks obstinate and misguided. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 21 June 2021",
"Ed remains obstinate , but the other guys keep them from coming to blows. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Many less attractive traits are also recorded: Charles could be uncommunicative and dilatory, evasive and mendacious, refractory, vindictive, obstinate , even outright wicked, though self-delusive about the motives of others. \u2014 R.j.w. Evans, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2020",
"Zelenskiy and Ukraine may be facing a similarly sensitive and obstinate government to the one the country confronted over the 2014 incident. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2020",
"Since the first cases here were diagnosed nearly five weeks ago, an obstinate equanimity has prevailed. \u2014 Arthur Longworth, The New York Review of Books , 12 Apr. 2020",
"And the obstinate idiosyncrasies of his music were at times judged even more harshly. \u2014 Seth Colter Walls, New York Times , 8 Apr. 2020"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French obstinat , Latin obstinatus , past participle of obstinare to be resolved, from ob- in the way + -stinare (akin to stare to stand)":""
},
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"\u02c8\u00e4b-st\u0259-n\u0259t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obstinate obstinate , dogged , stubborn , pertinacious , mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose. obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence. an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence. pursued the story with dogged perseverance stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable. a person too stubborn to admit error pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence. a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy. a mulish determination to have his own way",
": stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":[
"obstinate resistance to change"
]
},
"examples":[
"More than 30 cities had sued the gun industry for the costs of violence on their streets. Cuomo had brashly stepped into the legal swamp, hoping he could be the guy to force concessions from an obstinate industry. \u2014 Matt Bai , Newsweek , 5 Feb. 2001",
"With The New York Times calling Klein \"a weak nominee\" and editorializing that the administration should withdraw him, and with his opponents obstinate and apparently committed, he seemed for a moment to be in serious trouble. \u2014 John Heilemann , Wired , November 2000",
"What did they know of life? All they knew was how to parrot the stock phrases of their profession and to continue to be obstinate until somebody, somewhere, paid up. \u2014 Alexander McCall Smith , The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency , 1998",
"When my father finished telling the story, he looked at me, then looked away. A moment of silence lodged between us, an old and obstinate silence. \u2014 Bernard Cooper , Harper's , August 1992",
"his obstinate refusal to obey",
"My parents remain as obstinate as ever.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While many Big Tech companies have fought the right-to-repair movement, opposing dozens of state and federal bills that would force manufacturers to sell necessary repair items to customers, Apple has a reputation for being particularly obstinate . \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Sadly, many Western politicians and intellectuals remain obstinate . \u2014 Alexander William Salter, National Review , 22 July 2021",
"There was nothing stopping the NCAA from working toward a compromise and avoid running afoul of this Supreme Court case; its decision to fight now looks obstinate and misguided. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 21 June 2021",
"Ed remains obstinate , but the other guys keep them from coming to blows. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Many less attractive traits are also recorded: Charles could be uncommunicative and dilatory, evasive and mendacious, refractory, vindictive, obstinate , even outright wicked, though self-delusive about the motives of others. \u2014 R.j.w. Evans, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2020",
"Zelenskiy and Ukraine may be facing a similarly sensitive and obstinate government to the one the country confronted over the 2014 incident. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2020",
"Since the first cases here were diagnosed nearly five weeks ago, an obstinate equanimity has prevailed. \u2014 Arthur Longworth, The New York Review of Books , 12 Apr. 2020",
"And the obstinate idiosyncrasies of his music were at times judged even more harshly. \u2014 Seth Colter Walls, New York Times , 8 Apr. 2020"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French obstinat , Latin obstinatus , past participle of obstinare to be resolved, from ob- in the way + -stinare (akin to stare to stand)":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obstinate obstinate , dogged , stubborn , pertinacious , mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose. obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence. an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence. pursued the story with dogged perseverance stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable. a person too stubborn to admit error pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence. a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy. a mulish determination to have his own way",
"Middle English obstinacioun , from Middle French obstination , from Latin obstination-, obstinatio , from obstinatus (past participle of obstinare ) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
"an obstreperous crowd protesting the government's immigration policy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Indulge your obstreperous inclinations by viewing this joyful exhibition, cherishing Klein\u2019s singular and uncensored perspective on every facet of life in global cities, oscillating wildly between quotidian and uncanny. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"But that evidence competed in Biden\u2019s accounting with his own history of finding a way to work with unsavory and obstreperous counterparts, including the segregationists Strom Thurmond and James Eastland. \u2014 Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Biden, who has already met with another obstreperous American adversary, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, has not yet announced a face-to-face meeting with Xi. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 July 2021",
"Implicit in obstreperous is the idea that the control is justified and the threat minimal \u2013 its tone is patronizing. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 June 2021",
"On one side are those who want to crack down on peaceful if obstreperous protesters, on women\u2019s reproductive rights and on journalistic freedom while limiting minority voting rights and promoting religious conformity. \u2014 Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com , 1 June 2021",
"The United States is a big country, full of obstreperous citizens who claim, or would like to claim, a broad array of rights that can\u2019t all be recognized. \u2014 Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker , 24 May 2021",
"Lifting weights is nothing compared to wrestling those obstreperous facial muscles during a meeting. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2021",
"The elder Prescott hopes Teddy will soak up some practical business experience, but Ruthie offers his services to the Parlonis, obstreperous retirees whose personal assistants seem to come and go through a revolving door. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin obstreperus , from obstrepere to clamor against, from ob- against + strepere to make a noise":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obstreperous vociferous , clamorous , blatant , strident , boisterous , obstreperous mean so loud or insistent as to compel attention. vociferous implies a vehement shouting or calling out. vociferous cries of protest and outrage clamorous may imply insistency as well as vociferousness in demanding or protesting. clamorous demands for prison reforms blatant implies an offensive bellowing or insensitive loudness. blatant rock music a blatant clamor for impeachment strident suggests harsh and discordant noise. heard the strident cry of the crow boisterous suggests a noisiness and turbulence due to high spirits. a boisterous crowd of party goers obstreperous suggests unruly and aggressive noisiness and resistance to restraint. the obstreperous demonstrators were arrested",
"Indulge your obstreperous inclinations by viewing this joyful exhibition, cherishing Klein\u2019s singular and uncensored perspective on every facet of life in global cities, oscillating wildly between quotidian and uncanny. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"But that evidence competed in Biden\u2019s accounting with his own history of finding a way to work with unsavory and obstreperous counterparts, including the segregationists Strom Thurmond and James Eastland. \u2014 Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Biden, who has already met with another obstreperous American adversary, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, has not yet announced a face-to-face meeting with Xi. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 July 2021",
"Implicit in obstreperous is the idea that the control is justified and the threat minimal \u2013 its tone is patronizing. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 June 2021",
"On one side are those who want to crack down on peaceful if obstreperous protesters, on women\u2019s reproductive rights and on journalistic freedom while limiting minority voting rights and promoting religious conformity. \u2014 Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com , 1 June 2021",
"The United States is a big country, full of obstreperous citizens who claim, or would like to claim, a broad array of rights that can\u2019t all be recognized. \u2014 Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker , 24 May 2021",
"Lifting weights is nothing compared to wrestling those obstreperous facial muscles during a meeting. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2021",
"The elder Prescott hopes Teddy will soak up some practical business experience, but Ruthie offers his services to the Parlonis, obstreperous retirees whose personal assistants seem to come and go through a revolving door. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obstreperous vociferous , clamorous , blatant , strident , boisterous , obstreperous mean so loud or insistent as to compel attention. vociferous implies a vehement shouting or calling out. vociferous cries of protest and outrage clamorous may imply insistency as well as vociferousness in demanding or protesting. clamorous demands for prison reforms blatant implies an offensive bellowing or insensitive loudness. blatant rock music a blatant clamor for impeachment strident suggests harsh and discordant noise. heard the strident cry of the crow boisterous suggests a noisiness and turbulence due to high spirits. a boisterous crowd of party goers obstreperous suggests unruly and aggressive noisiness and resistance to restraint. the obstreperous demonstrators were arrested",
"Late Latin obstriction-, obstrictio , from Latin obstrictus (past participle of obstringere to bind, obligate, from ob- to, over + stringere to draw tight, bind) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
"A piece of food obstructed his airway and caused him to stop breathing.",
"She was charged with obstructing police.",
"She was charged with obstructing justice by lying to investigators.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dean is also accused of billing Medicaid for dates his residents were not receiving proper care and engaging in conduct intended to intimidate or obstruct public health officials and law enforcement, according to the attorney general\u2019s office. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
"Car seats, strollers, swings, infant carriers and infant slings can also obstruct a baby\u2019s airways, the AAP said. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"The suspects, all wearing hoods and masks to obstruct clear identifying elements, stole the valuables and fled the scene. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 19 June 2022",
"The actor continues to obstruct a sidewalk, and in return they are cited by police for obstructing a highway. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Eastern time, will focus in part on the coordination between extremist groups who conspired to obstruct Congress by fomenting and spearheading a riot, according to committee aides. \u2014 Jacqueline Alemany, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022",
"The committee noted that Biggs participated in an effort recently determined by a federal judge that more likely than not involved a criminal effort by Trump to obstruct Congress from certifying Biden's victory on Jan. 6. \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 12 May 2022",
"According to the indictment, in December 2020, Tarrio and the Proud Boys members conspired to obstruct and stop the counting of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6. \u2014 Robert Legare, CBS News , 7 June 2022",
"But many Democrats and anti-gun advocates remain skeptical, predicting that McConnell and his fellow Republicans are poised to obstruct any consequential gun-violence prevention bills yet again. \u2014 Michael Scherer, Washington Post , 28 May 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obstruct hinder , impede , obstruct , block mean to interfere with the activity or progress of. hinder stresses causing harmful or annoying delay or interference with progress. rain hindered the climb impede implies making forward progress difficult by clogging, hampering, or fettering. tight clothing that impedes movement obstruct implies interfering with something in motion or in progress by the sometimes intentional placing of obstacles in the way. the view was obstructed by billboards block implies complete obstruction to passage or progress. a landslide blocked the road",
"A piece of food obstructed his airway and caused him to stop breathing.",
"She was charged with obstructing police.",
"She was charged with obstructing justice by lying to investigators.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dean is also accused of billing Medicaid for dates his residents were not receiving proper care and engaging in conduct intended to intimidate or obstruct public health officials and law enforcement, according to the attorney general\u2019s office. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
"Car seats, strollers, swings, infant carriers and infant slings can also obstruct a baby\u2019s airways, the AAP said. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"The suspects, all wearing hoods and masks to obstruct clear identifying elements, stole the valuables and fled the scene. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 19 June 2022",
"The actor continues to obstruct a sidewalk, and in return they are cited by police for obstructing a highway. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Eastern time, will focus in part on the coordination between extremist groups who conspired to obstruct Congress by fomenting and spearheading a riot, according to committee aides. \u2014 Jacqueline Alemany, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022",
"The committee noted that Biggs participated in an effort recently determined by a federal judge that more likely than not involved a criminal effort by Trump to obstruct Congress from certifying Biden's victory on Jan. 6. \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 12 May 2022",
"According to the indictment, in December 2020, Tarrio and the Proud Boys members conspired to obstruct and stop the counting of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6. \u2014 Robert Legare, CBS News , 7 June 2022",
"But many Democrats and anti-gun advocates remain skeptical, predicting that McConnell and his fellow Republicans are poised to obstruct any consequential gun-violence prevention bills yet again. \u2014 Michael Scherer, Washington Post , 28 May 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obstruct hinder , impede , obstruct , block mean to interfere with the activity or progress of. hinder stresses causing harmful or annoying delay or interference with progress. rain hindered the climb impede implies making forward progress difficult by clogging, hampering, or fettering. tight clothing that impedes movement obstruct implies interfering with something in motion or in progress by the sometimes intentional placing of obstacles in the way. the view was obstructed by billboards block implies complete obstruction to passage or progress. a landslide blocked the road",
"Later that year, Dean pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, served four months and was disbarred. \u2014 Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Dean was later incarcerated for 127 days at an Army base after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and was in witness protection for 18 months to shield him from ongoing death threats. \u2014 Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"In April, Vance, who had led troops in Canada\u2019s last major combat mission, in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice after being accused of trying to persuade Brennan to lie to investigators. \u2014 Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"Smith pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges in federal court in January 2021 after being accused of stealing just under $75,000 from his campaign fund from 2012 to 2019. \u2014 Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Moody has been in custody since his May 4 arrest on an obstruction charge. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 17 May 2022",
"Earlier this month, another judge in the District of Columbia's federal court upheld prosecutors' use of the same obstruction charge in a separate case against two riot defendants. \u2014 Michael Kunzelman, ajc , 28 Dec. 2021",
"The sentencing guidelines range for the obstruction charge is 21 to 27 months. \u2014 Tom Schad, USA TODAY , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Prosecutors have brought the obstruction charge in many of the most notorious cases, including against members of the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and Three Percenters groups who allegedly conspired and prepared in advance for violence. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 July 2021"
": to be generally recognized or established : prevail":[
"Those ideas no longer obtain for our generation.",
"a greater degree of free expression than usually obtains in film production",
"\u2014 Roger Manvell"
],
": to gain or attain usually by planned action or effort":[
"The information was difficult to obtain .",
"We obtained a copy of the original letter."
]
},
"examples":[
"The information may be difficult to obtain .",
"We obtained a copy of the original letter.",
"These ideas no longer obtain for our generation.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ever since the landmark 1973 ruling that divided the nation, some have been fighting to help patients obtain abortions, while others have been fighting just as strongly to get that decision overturned. \u2014 Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"Law enforcement was subsequently able to obtain an order to recover the disturbed man\u2019s guns and prevent him from purchasing a new firearm for at least a year. \u2014 Shannon Frattaroli, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"But perhaps the biggest barrier to new entrants is the structure of a program that aims to help low-income families obtain formula. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Might the metaverse be able to help people obtain advanced accreditation in fields such as real estate, accounting or coding? \u2014 David Lucatch, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Organizations outside of Poland can help callers obtain pills or, if there is a reason to avoid pills\u2014a partner or parent will find out, for example, or no safe mailing address is available\u2014refer them to a clinic. \u2014 Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker , 17 May 2022",
"And the administration is only slowly reestablishing U.S. consular services in Havana that would help Cubans obtain visas for legal travel. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"The declaration will help the county obtain state aid, officials said. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The nonprofit advocacy group had planned three events at a South Los Angeles office to help unhoused people obtain emergency shelter. \u2014 al , 31 Mar. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English obteinen , from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French obtenir , from Latin obtin\u0113re to hold on to, possess, obtain, from ob- in the way + ten\u0113re to hold \u2014 more at thin":""
"These ideas no longer obtain for our generation.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ever since the landmark 1973 ruling that divided the nation, some have been fighting to help patients obtain abortions, while others have been fighting just as strongly to get that decision overturned. \u2014 Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"Law enforcement was subsequently able to obtain an order to recover the disturbed man\u2019s guns and prevent him from purchasing a new firearm for at least a year. \u2014 Shannon Frattaroli, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"But perhaps the biggest barrier to new entrants is the structure of a program that aims to help low-income families obtain formula. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Might the metaverse be able to help people obtain advanced accreditation in fields such as real estate, accounting or coding? \u2014 David Lucatch, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Organizations outside of Poland can help callers obtain pills or, if there is a reason to avoid pills\u2014a partner or parent will find out, for example, or no safe mailing address is available\u2014refer them to a clinic. \u2014 Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker , 17 May 2022",
"And the administration is only slowly reestablishing U.S. consular services in Havana that would help Cubans obtain visas for legal travel. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"The declaration will help the county obtain state aid, officials said. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The nonprofit advocacy group had planned three events at a South Los Angeles office to help unhoused people obtain emergency shelter. \u2014 al , 31 Mar. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English obteinen , from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French obtenir , from Latin obtin\u0113re to hold on to, possess, obtain, from ob- in the way + ten\u0113re to hold \u2014 more at thin":""
": to be generally recognized or established : prevail":[
"Those ideas no longer obtain for our generation.",
"a greater degree of free expression than usually obtains in film production",
"\u2014 Roger Manvell"
],
": to gain or attain usually by planned action or effort":[
"The information was difficult to obtain .",
"We obtained a copy of the original letter."
]
},
"examples":[
"The information may be difficult to obtain .",
"We obtained a copy of the original letter.",
"These ideas no longer obtain for our generation.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ever since the landmark 1973 ruling that divided the nation, some have been fighting to help patients obtain abortions, while others have been fighting just as strongly to get that decision overturned. \u2014 Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"Law enforcement was subsequently able to obtain an order to recover the disturbed man\u2019s guns and prevent him from purchasing a new firearm for at least a year. \u2014 Shannon Frattaroli, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"But perhaps the biggest barrier to new entrants is the structure of a program that aims to help low-income families obtain formula. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Might the metaverse be able to help people obtain advanced accreditation in fields such as real estate, accounting or coding? \u2014 David Lucatch, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Organizations outside of Poland can help callers obtain pills or, if there is a reason to avoid pills\u2014a partner or parent will find out, for example, or no safe mailing address is available\u2014refer them to a clinic. \u2014 Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker , 17 May 2022",
"And the administration is only slowly reestablishing U.S. consular services in Havana that would help Cubans obtain visas for legal travel. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"The declaration will help the county obtain state aid, officials said. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The nonprofit advocacy group had planned three events at a South Los Angeles office to help unhoused people obtain emergency shelter. \u2014 al , 31 Mar. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English obteinen , from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French obtenir , from Latin obtin\u0113re to hold on to, possess, obtain, from ob- in the way + ten\u0113re to hold \u2014 more at thin":""
"Her origins finally emerged in a 2017 Hollywood Reporter expos\u00e9, whose raw material the series relays through obtrusive mock interviews with characters, many of them renamed, lightly fictionalized versions of real people. \u2014 James Poniewozik, New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"To its supporters, the system is a more effective and less obtrusive alternative to the age-old metal detector, making events both safer and more pleasant to attend. \u2014 Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"The athletes don\u2019t view the camera as obtrusive but something else entirely. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Surprisingly, the aesthetic incorporates a gas lamp fixture and does not look obtrusive . \u2014 Will Townsend, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"However, the project, now in its second year, also shows the value of monuments that are more obtrusive and durable. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But rest assured: Menstrual underwear is far sexier and less obtrusive than diapers. \u2014 De Elizabeth, Allure , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Her true love follows, and the ensuing chase leads her to leap a hedge, fall to the ground, and smack the back of her head against an obtrusive rock. \u2014 ELLE , 2 Apr. 2022",
"But despite the extra juice, the power glut is not obtrusive as the vehicle's two diverse and generally harmonious powertrains got down to it, save a one-time, mild clunk from the rear. \u2014 Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver , 18 Mar. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obtrusive impertinent , officious , meddlesome , intrusive , obtrusive mean given to thrusting oneself into the affairs of others. impertinent implies exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest or curiosity or in offering advice. resented their impertinent interference officious implies the offering of services or attentions that are unwelcome or annoying. officious friends made the job harder meddlesome stresses an annoying and usually prying interference in others' affairs. a meddlesome landlord intrusive implies a tactless or otherwise objectionable thrusting into others' affairs. tried to be helpful without being intrusive obtrusive stresses improper or offensive conspicuousness of interfering actions. expressed an obtrusive concern for his safety",
": difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression":[
"It is also, unfortunately, ill-written, and at times obtuse and often trivial.",
"\u2014 Shirley Hazzard"
],
": exceeding 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees":[],
": having an obtuse angle":[
"an obtuse triangle"
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": lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : insensitive , stupid":[
"He is too obtuse to take a hint."
],
": not pointed or acute : blunt":[],
": rounded at the free end":[],
"\u2014 see triangle illustration":[
"an obtuse triangle"
]
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"examples":[
"Murdoch's art, like all good art, is highly structured and controlled\u2014a house neat and clean enough to satisfy the most morally obtuse of her upper-class British characters. \u2014 Martha C. Nussbaum , New Republic , 31 Dec. 2001 & 7 Jan. 2002",
"Only the most obtuse missed the main message: humans risked so distorting the natural order that they were sentencing themselves to be destroyed by frost or furnace. \u2014 Joseph A. Amato , Dust , 2000",
"In fact, he was too obtuse even to realize that his assignment to Tejas was a demotion \u2026 \u2014 James A. Michener , Texas , 1985",
"\u2026 either he, and the other people in his shop, and two people I subsequently ask are incapable of giving directions, or I am too rattled and obtuse to follow them, but I cannot find the police station. \u2014 Renata Adler , Pitch Dark , 1983",
"He is too obtuse to take a hint.",
"obtuse scissors designed so that young users will not cut themselves",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In such light, Saban\u2019s words are perhaps more obtuse than overtly offensive. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 24 May 2022",
"Where Mungiu\u2019s layered storytelling doesn\u2019t quite work is in a finale so suggestive as to remain more or less obtuse , which is unfortunate because until then, R.M.N. was building toward something powerful. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"Starting at an obtuse angle, such as 120 degrees, makes the exercise easier. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 21 May 2020",
"There's something obtuse about someone taking a savage glee in watching psychotics brutally murder dozens of people on T.V. \u2014 Anthony Venditti, CBS News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"What might ordinarily seem arcane and obtuse to the general public was actually an exciting time for those gathered in the room. \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Jen is unclear to the point of being deliberately obtuse about her business relationship with Stuart. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But more than being challenging, role-playing games by FromSoftware are often obtuse , with lots of unexplained elements that are often a big factor in how easily the experience unfolds for players. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020",
"How many hard working people saw their savings eviscerated as a consequence of the horrifyingly obtuse view inside the economics and political professions that debased money is economically stimulative? \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin obtusus blunt, dull, from past participle of obtundere to beat against, blunt, from ob- against + tundere to beat \u2014 more at ob- , contusion":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obtuse dull , blunt , obtuse mean not sharp, keen, or acute. dull suggests a lack or loss of keenness, zest, or pungency. a dull pain a dull mind blunt suggests an inherent lack of sharpness or quickness of feeling or perception. a person of blunt sensibility obtuse implies such bluntness as makes one insensitive in perception or imagination. too obtuse to take the hint",
": difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression":[
"It is also, unfortunately, ill-written, and at times obtuse and often trivial.",
"\u2014 Shirley Hazzard"
],
": exceeding 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees":[],
": having an obtuse angle":[
"an obtuse triangle"
],
": lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : insensitive , stupid":[
"He is too obtuse to take a hint."
],
": not pointed or acute : blunt":[],
": rounded at the free end":[],
"\u2014 see triangle illustration":[
"an obtuse triangle"
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"examples":[
"Murdoch's art, like all good art, is highly structured and controlled\u2014a house neat and clean enough to satisfy the most morally obtuse of her upper-class British characters. \u2014 Martha C. Nussbaum , New Republic , 31 Dec. 2001 & 7 Jan. 2002",
"Only the most obtuse missed the main message: humans risked so distorting the natural order that they were sentencing themselves to be destroyed by frost or furnace. \u2014 Joseph A. Amato , Dust , 2000",
"In fact, he was too obtuse even to realize that his assignment to Tejas was a demotion \u2026 \u2014 James A. Michener , Texas , 1985",
"\u2026 either he, and the other people in his shop, and two people I subsequently ask are incapable of giving directions, or I am too rattled and obtuse to follow them, but I cannot find the police station. \u2014 Renata Adler , Pitch Dark , 1983",
"He is too obtuse to take a hint.",
"obtuse scissors designed so that young users will not cut themselves",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In such light, Saban\u2019s words are perhaps more obtuse than overtly offensive. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 24 May 2022",
"Where Mungiu\u2019s layered storytelling doesn\u2019t quite work is in a finale so suggestive as to remain more or less obtuse , which is unfortunate because until then, R.M.N. was building toward something powerful. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"Starting at an obtuse angle, such as 120 degrees, makes the exercise easier. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 21 May 2020",
"There's something obtuse about someone taking a savage glee in watching psychotics brutally murder dozens of people on T.V. \u2014 Anthony Venditti, CBS News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"What might ordinarily seem arcane and obtuse to the general public was actually an exciting time for those gathered in the room. \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Jen is unclear to the point of being deliberately obtuse about her business relationship with Stuart. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But more than being challenging, role-playing games by FromSoftware are often obtuse , with lots of unexplained elements that are often a big factor in how easily the experience unfolds for players. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020",
"How many hard working people saw their savings eviscerated as a consequence of the horrifyingly obtuse view inside the economics and political professions that debased money is economically stimulative? \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin obtusus blunt, dull, from past participle of obtundere to beat against, blunt, from ob- against + tundere to beat \u2014 more at ob- , contusion":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obtuse dull , blunt , obtuse mean not sharp, keen, or acute. dull suggests a lack or loss of keenness, zest, or pungency. a dull pain a dull mind blunt suggests an inherent lack of sharpness or quickness of feeling or perception. a person of blunt sensibility obtuse implies such bluntness as makes one insensitive in perception or imagination. too obtuse to take the hint",
": a proposition inferred immediately from another by denying the opposite of what the given proposition affirms":[
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],
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": having the base narrower than the top":[
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]
},
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"Noun",
"joy and its obverse , sadness",
"We thought they would be pleased with our decision. We have learned, however, that the obverse is true.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The case of the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach then-President Trump in his term\u2019s dwindling days, and now are disappearing from Congress, is a nearly obverse mystery. \u2014 Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the case of your token, the obverse would have been made with the Sam Houston design, with the backs left blank to be cast with the buyer\u2019s choice. \u2014 Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News , 12 Mar. 2022",
"There were other versions made, including tokens with the same or common obverse for the McKean-Eilers Dry Goods Co. of Austin and the Progress Laundry of Dallas and Waco. \u2014 Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News , 12 Mar. 2022",
"As required by law, the new quarters will keep George Washington\u2019s likeness on the obverse , or heads side, of the coins. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Jan. 2022",
"This strategy is the obverse of the investment strategy known as dollar-cost averaging\u2014buying shares at regular intervals. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 27 Dec. 2021",
"In On Animals, a new collection of old essays, veteran journalist Susan Orlean is almost the obverse of wonder-seeking naturalists like David Attenborough. \u2014 Amy Brady, Scientific American , 9 Sep. 2021",
"First minted in 1907, the coin features an image of Lady Liberty striding forward on its obverse and an eagle in flight on its reverse. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 June 2021",
"The trite but Twitter-ready condition\u2014must love dogs\u2014stretched the challenge by choosing an image of a Shiba Inu, the most cat-like of pooches, for the coin\u2019s obverse . \u2014 David Lavie, Robb Report , 24 May 2021",
"In many ways, Mr. Davis, 72, is the obverse of Mr. Courtney. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1658, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin obversus , from past participle of obvertere to turn toward, from ob- toward + vertere to turn \u2014 more at ob- , worth":"Adjective"
": to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary":[
"The new medical treatment obviates the need for surgery."
]
},
"examples":[
"The new medical treatment obviates the need for surgery.",
"The new treatment obviates many of the risks associated with surgery.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The process is called in-ovo sexing, and such technologies, versions of which are already deployed in some countries, can obviate the need for live chick culling. \u2014 Jonathan Moens, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Mar. 2021",
"The process is called in-ovo sexing, and such technologies, versions of which are already deployed in some countries, can obviate the need for live chick culling. \u2014 Jonathan Moens, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Mar. 2021",
"Issue 9 could obviate all of that work, which raises the question of whether that is the real intention. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The process is called in-ovo sexing, and such technologies, versions of which are already deployed in some countries, can obviate the need for live chick culling. \u2014 Jonathan Moens, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Mar. 2021",
"The process is called in-ovo sexing, and such technologies, versions of which are already deployed in some countries, can obviate the need for live chick culling. \u2014 Jonathan Moens, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Mar. 2021",
"In the lead-up to its publication, this anti-parasitic drug has been championed in right wing circles, presumably as a way to obviate the need for a coronavirus vaccine. \u2014 Andy Meek, Forbes , 6 Sep. 2021",
"This would obviate any need in the foreseeable future to list on the capital markets in order to better compete for top talent. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The Senate\u2014average Member age: 64\u2014has navigated pandemic risks without proxy floor voting, and vaccines obviate whatever public-health rationale once existed. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 20 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1567, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin obviatus , past participle of obviare to meet, withstand, from Latin obviam":""
": denoting the second of two third persons referred to in a context (as in the construction in some languages corresponding to \u201che held his [another's] horse\u201d) \u2014 compare proximate":[]
"Her doctor immediately noticed the obvious signs of the disease.",
"She saw only the most obvious differences.",
"It was obvious that things weren't working out.",
"The answer seems obvious enough to me.",
"The problem was immediately obvious to everyone in the room.",
"He was the obvious candidate for president.",
"The obvious question is: how did he become so successful?",
"For obvious reasons, I would not like to reveal my name.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Canada\u2019s appeals are obvious : the nature, the livable cities, the publicly funded health care, the diversity, the lower crime rates. \u2014 Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"For most New Yorkers, aghast at spectacles such as the mass shooting in Brooklyn on April 12, the need for such a focus is obvious . \u2014 Stephen Eide, National Review , 23 June 2022",
"The danger of stopping a ventilator that sustains someone\u2019s oxygen flow is obvious . \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"At the risk of being obvious or asking an impossible question: Where did this instinct come from? \u2014 Corey Seymour, Vogue , 18 June 2022",
"His baseline appeal is obvious \u2014 an Irishness that resonates in the most concentrated Irish diaspora in the country. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"To an extent, all the choices were obvious at a time when FIFA viewed the U.S. as an emerging market in the days before Major League Soccer. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"That the Arizona call freaked out Trump World was obvious ; having such a verdict, especially coming from his usually dependable cheerleading squad at Fox, was devastating. \u2014 Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The psychological rationale is obvious \u2014shedding the last bits of empire is hard to contemplate. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obvious evident , manifest , patent , distinct , obvious , apparent , plain , clear mean readily perceived or apprehended. evident implies presence of visible signs that lead one to a definite conclusion. an evident fondness for sweets manifest implies an external display so evident that little or no inference is required. manifest hostility patent applies to a cause, effect, or significant feature that is clear and unmistakable once attention has been directed to it. patent defects distinct implies such sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or comprehend is required. a distinct refusal obvious implies such ease in discovering that it often suggests conspicuousness or little need for perspicacity in the observer. the obvious solution apparent is very close to evident except that it may imply more conscious exercise of inference. for no apparent reason plain suggests lack of intricacy, complexity, or elaboration. her feelings about him are plain clear implies an absence of anything that confuses the mind or obscures the pattern. a clear explanation",
"At a time when the company is overstaffed and sitting on idle warehouses, anything that cuts down on excess overhead will obviously get explored. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"And on an acting level, too, there\u2019s obviously so much more that can happen when there are two factors instead of trying to create something that\u2019s built around yourself. \u2014 Sasha Urban, Variety , 28 June 2022",
"The notion that anyone still believes Trump, a person so clearly dangerous and so obviously unhinged, should come anywhere remotely near the White House ever again. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"How about signing Bogaerts, who obviously wants to stay here, to an extension while the Red Sox are in New York over the next few weeks? \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"DJ LeMahieu, who was playing second base Monday, is a natural second baseman and obviously doesn\u2019t change the lineup much. \u2014 Kristie Ackert, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"With all that, Saturday seemed a bright June day, obviously a summer\u2019s day, a day that did its part to create and contribute to the carefree vibe of the weekend and the season. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"The Chargers coached that game and, obviously , ended up taking Eli and trading with the Giants. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 26 June 2022",
"Most obviously , the right to terminate a pregnancy arose straight out of the right to purchase and use contraception. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 24 June 2022"
"Canada\u2019s appeals are obvious : the nature, the livable cities, the publicly funded health care, the diversity, the lower crime rates. \u2014 Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"For most New Yorkers, aghast at spectacles such as the mass shooting in Brooklyn on April 12, the need for such a focus is obvious . \u2014 Stephen Eide, National Review , 23 June 2022",
"The danger of stopping a ventilator that sustains someone\u2019s oxygen flow is obvious . \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"At the risk of being obvious or asking an impossible question: Where did this instinct come from? \u2014 Corey Seymour, Vogue , 18 June 2022",
"His baseline appeal is obvious \u2014 an Irishness that resonates in the most concentrated Irish diaspora in the country. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"To an extent, all the choices were obvious at a time when FIFA viewed the U.S. as an emerging market in the days before Major League Soccer. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"That the Arizona call freaked out Trump World was obvious ; having such a verdict, especially coming from his usually dependable cheerleading squad at Fox, was devastating. \u2014 Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The psychological rationale is obvious \u2014shedding the last bits of empire is hard to contemplate. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for obvious evident , manifest , patent , distinct , obvious , apparent , plain , clear mean readily perceived or apprehended. evident implies presence of visible signs that lead one to a definite conclusion. an evident fondness for sweets manifest implies an external display so evident that little or no inference is required. manifest hostility patent applies to a cause, effect, or significant feature that is clear and unmistakable once attention has been directed to it. patent defects distinct implies such sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or comprehend is required. a distinct refusal obvious implies such ease in discovering that it often suggests conspicuousness or little need for perspicacity in the observer. the obvious solution apparent is very close to evident except that it may imply more conscious exercise of inference. for no apparent reason plain suggests lack of intricacy, complexity, or elaboration. her feelings about him are plain clear implies an absence of anything that confuses the mind or obscures the pattern. a clear explanation",
