obfuscate
4 antonyms for obfuscate — opposites grouped by meaning.
Verb — To make something unclear or hard to understand, usually on purpose and in order to hide the truth.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. verb
To make something unclear or hard to understand, usually on purpose and in order to hide the truth.
“The report obfuscates the losses by burying them in an appendix.”
Opposites
Antonyms
How to use obfuscate
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
obfuscate the issue
deliberately obfuscate
obfuscated code
obfuscate the truth
Formal, and usually critical: accusing someone of obfuscating is an accusation of bad faith.
Etymology
From Latin obfuscare "to darken", from ob- "over" and fuscus "dark, dusky".
Full origin of obfuscate →Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between obfuscate and obscure?
Obscure can be accidental and is often a state as well as an act — fog obscures a view. Obfuscate almost always implies deliberate effort to confuse, usually with words, and carries a clear note of blame.
How do you pronounce obfuscate?
OB-fuh-skayt, with the stress on the first syllable, and the f and s sounded separately. The noun is obfuscation, ob-fuh-SKAY-shuhn.
What does obfuscated code mean?
It is working source code that has been deliberately made unreadable — variable names replaced with meaningless strings, structure flattened — so that people cannot easily study or copy it. The computer runs it exactly as before; only human readers are affected.
