Advanced and Proficiency Vocabulary for Exams(e.g.GRE, Banks, Civil Services, SAT / LSAT). For IELTS/TOEFL, and everyday spoken vocabulary, go to our Spoken Vocabulary Database.
When you ‘obfuscate’, you obscure something by making it seem much more confusing and difficult to understand than it really is. This is typically done deliberately as a tactic when you are trying to be evasive or hide something, like the truth. For that reason, the word is often used in a political context.
Exam DB | Spoken DB | Other | |
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Synonyms | obscure, bewilder, confound, | ||
Antonyms | elucidate | clarify, enlighten, |
Your argument is not helping anything, it only serves to obfuscate the main issue we’re trying to address.
The politician’s evasiveness and twisting of the facts was a deliberate obfuscation of the truth.
Those new rules are so nebulous. They are much more likely to obfuscate the situation than clarify anything.