OBSCURELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obscurely mean? 

• OBSCURELY (adverb)
  The adverb OBSCURELY has 1 sense:

1. in an obscure manner

  Familiarity information: OBSCURELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSCURELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an obscure manner

Context example:

this work is obscurely written

Pertainym:

obscure (marked by difficulty of style or expression)

 Context examples 

The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Roaring noon. In a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar I met Gatsby for lunch. Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)