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opacious

opacious adjective: opaque.

Adjective

opacious (comparative more opacious, superlative most opacious)

  1. (archaic) Opaque.
    • […] I should never have gone near the fence, under any circumstances; for I was very fond of fences, of wire fences, very fond indeed; not of walls, nor palisades, nor opacious hedges, no; but to all that limited motion, without limiting vision, to the ditch, the dyke, the barred window, the bog...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Forms of opacious

comparativemore opacious
superlativemost opacious

Questions about opacious

What does opacious mean?
Opacious means opaque.
What part of speech is opacious?
Opacious is an adjective.

Words near opacious in the dictionary

  1. opacifies
  2. opacify
  3. opacifying
  4. opacimeter
  5. opacimeters
  6. opacious
  7. opacite
  8. opacites
  9. opacities
  10. opacity
  11. opacous

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