| barren | | |
| n. (location) | 1. barren, waste, wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
| ~ heathland, heath | a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. |
| ~ wild, wilderness | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition.; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" |
| adj. | 2. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark | providing no shelter or sustenance.; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" |
| ~ inhospitable | unfavorable to life or growth.; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" |
| adj. | 3. barren | not bearing offspring.; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" |
| ~ infertile, sterile, unfertile | incapable of reproducing.; "an infertile couple" |
| adj. | 4. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent | completely wanting or lacking.; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" |
| ~ nonexistent | not having existence or being or actuality.; "chimeras are nonexistent" |
| unclear | | |
| adj. | 1. ill-defined, unclear | poorly stated or described.; "he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts" |
| adj. | 2. unclear | not clear to the mind.; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day" |
| ~ ambiguous | having more than one possible meaning.; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy" |
| ~ blurred, clouded | unclear in form or expression.; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded" |
| ~ perplexing, confusing, puzzling | lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity.; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement" |
| ~ obscure, vague | not clearly understood or expressed.; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science" |
| ~ opaque | not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight.; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" |
| ~ uncomprehensible, incomprehensible | difficult to understand.; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible" |
| ~ indefinite | vague or not clearly defined or stated.; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal" |
| ~ indistinct | not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand.; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" |
| adj. | 3. indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable, unreadable | not easily deciphered.; "indecipherable handwriting" |
| ~ illegible | (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible.; "illegible handwriting" |
| blur | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. blur, fuzz | a hazy or indistinct representation.; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| v. (perception) | 2. blur, film over, glaze over | become glassy; lose clear vision.; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep" |
| v. (perception) | 3. blur | to make less distinct or clear.; "The haze blurs the hills" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure | make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ confuse, confound | mistake one thing for another.; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" |
| ~ muddy | cause to become muddy.; "These data would have muddied the prediction" |
| v. (contact) | 5. blur, smear, smudge, smutch | make a smudge on; soil by smudging. |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| ~ resmudge | smudge again. |
| ~ dust | rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape.; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image" |
| v. (change) | 6. blear, blur | make dim or indistinct.; "The fog blurs my vision" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ slur, dim, blur | become vague or indistinct.; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" |
| v. (change) | 7. blur, dim, slur | become vague or indistinct.; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| ~ efface, obliterate | remove completely from recognition or memory.; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" |
| delete | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. cancel, delete | remove or make invisible.; "Please delete my name from your list" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ rub out, score out, erase, wipe off, efface | remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" |
| ~ excise, expunge, scratch, strike | remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark" |
| v. (communication) | 2. delete, erase | wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information.; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" |
| ~ recording, transcription | the act of making a record (especially an audio record).; "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth" |
| ~ take away, take out | take out or remove.; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" |
| ~ demagnetise, demagnetize | erase (a magnetic storage device). |
| v. (change) | 3. blue-pencil, delete, edit | cut or eliminate.; "she edited the juiciest scenes" |
| ~ censor | subject to political, religious, or moral censorship.; "This magazine is censored by the government" |
| erase | | |
| v. (change) | 1. erase, wipe out | remove from memory or existence.; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| v. (contact) | 2. efface, erase, rub out, score out, wipe off | remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing.; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| ~ sponge | erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard. |
| ~ delete, cancel | remove or make invisible.; "Please delete my name from your list" |
| ~ scratch out, cut out | strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out.; "scratch out my name on that list" |
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