obnubilated
UK/ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪtɪd/
obnubilated adjective: obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud. Also the simple past and past participle of obnubilate.
Adjective
obnubilated (not comparable)
- Obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
- James…found his mind, perhaps, in that obnubilated state, which we generally experience when told any thing very much out of the common way, or of which we cannot well make the different facts tally.1830, Robert Chambers, The Life of King James the First, I, ch. ix, p. 246
- Pipkin […] might possibly be acquainted with him, and so accost him by name; and it might turn out, if the undiscovered were but a bit of an egoist, he would indulge in some narration of “himself and times,” whereby his obnubilated patronymic might transpire to the fullest content.1839 Apr., George Raymond, “The Prince of Darkness” in Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine and Humorist LV, ed. T. Hook, № ccxx, p. 514
Also used as
obnubilated is also the simple past and past participle of obnubilate.
Origin of obnubilated
From obnubilate + -ed (suffix forming perfect participial adjectives).
Regularly conjugated forms of obnubilate (verb).
Questions about obnubilated
- What does obnubilated mean?
- Obnubilated means obscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
- What part of speech is obnubilated?
- Obnubilated is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce obnubilated?
- Obnubilated is pronounced /ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪtɪd/ (UK).
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