Usually means: Not allowing light to pass.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. opaque: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opaque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opaque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opaque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opaque: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opaque, opaque: Wordnik
  7. opaque: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opaque: Wiktionary
  9. opaque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opaque: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opaque: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. opaque: Dictionary.com
  13. opaque: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. opaque: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Opaque (rapper), Opaque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Opaque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. opaque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. opaque: Rhymezone
  19. opaque, opaque: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. opaque: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. opaque: Free Dictionary
  22. opaque: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. opaque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. opaque: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. opaque: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. opaque: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Opaque: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. Opaque: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. opaque: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opaque: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. opaque: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OPAQUE: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. opaque: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. opaque: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Opaque: Gems and Precious Stones
  3. Opaque: Beauty & Health Glossary
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See opaqued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
adjective:  Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
adjective:  (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
adjective:  (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
adjective:  (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
noun:  (obsolete, poetic) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
noun:  Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
verb:  (transitive) To make, render (more) opaque.

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