# obfuscate

- **Language:** English
- **Level:** C2 (Proficient)
- **Part of speech:** verb
- **Pronunciation:** /ˈɒbfʌskeɪt/
- **English:** to make something less clear and harder to understand
- **Persian:** مبهم کردن، گیج کردن

## Example

> The report seemed designed to obfuscate the truth.
> گزارش انگار برای مبهم کردن حقیقت نوشته شده بود.

## Word forms

- noun: obfuscation

## Synonyms

obscure, confuse

## Opposites

clarify

## Common phrases

- obfuscate the issue
- deliberately obfuscate
- obfuscate the facts

## Related words

- [cogent](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/cogent): clearly expressed and convincing (C2)
- [eloquent](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/eloquent): able to speak or write in a clear and persuasive way (C2)
- [equivocal](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/equivocal): having more than one possible meaning, often on purpose (C2)
- [lucid](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/lucid): clear and easy to understand; able to think clearly (C2)
- [unequivocal](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/unequivocal): expressing one clear meaning with no doubt (C2)
- [laconic](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/laconic): using very few words (C2)
- [ambiguous](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/ambiguous): having more than one possible meaning (C1)
- [articulate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/articulate): to express ideas clearly in words (C1)

Source: https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/obfuscate