Meanings
obnubilated1
- figurativelyliterallynot comparableObscured; dimmed or hidden with or as if with a cloud.
Do not despair, Mr. Graves. Some day the clouds will roll away, and the sun, so long obnubilated, burst forth, for you, Mr. Graves, at last.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC2 more examples
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. 246Pipkin […] 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
obnubilated2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of obnubilate
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Origin
obnubilated · adjective
From obnubilate + -ed (suffix forming perfect participial adjectives).
Full word history & related roots →obnubilated · verb
Regularly conjugated forms of obnubilate (verb).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Portuguese obnubilado
- obnubiladoobscured, dimmed, or hidden with a cloud
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