Meanings
adjectivenontransparent (not comparable)
alternative non-transparent
- not comparableNot transparent; lacking transparence; opaque.
We remember that Kevin Corbett said last month that nontransparent ’crazed’ windows would be replaced when rail cars were overhauled.
2024 11, David Peter Alan, quoting Sally Jane Gellert, “Multilevel Cards to Get Their Trucks Overhauled, but What About the Windows?”, in Lackawanna Coalition RailgramSynonyms: untransparent, intransparent
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot transparent; lacking transparence; opaque.
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Medieval Latintrānspārēns, trānspārēntis
- Englishtransparent
- Englishnontransparent
From non- + transparent.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian непрозрачен
- непрозрачен (neprozračen)Not transparent; lacking transparence; opaque
Cite this entry
APA
nontransparent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontransparent
MLA
“nontransparent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontransparent. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nontransparent,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontransparent.
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