Vocabulary
Opaque
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
not able to be seen through; not transparent
Urdu meaning
مبہم، غیر شفاف
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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That is when the crisis really begins.In addition, the Gulf economies seem to facing difficulties of their own, but due to the opaque nature of governance, they are thus far paperingthese over.
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How it ends
— 2026-04-23
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Despite repeated commitments over the years, refund processing remains slow, opaque and arbitrary.
Dawn Editorials —
Delayed tax refunds
— 2026-03-28
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Our state has become notoriously opaque, especially when it is being probed on matters of public interest.
Dawn Editorials —
Guided truths
— 2026-02-20
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Both legal certainty and investor confidence are shaken when faced with huge case backlogs, a plethora of special courts and tribunals, and judicial appointments widely seen as opaque.
Dawn Editorials —
Governing beyond diagnosis
— 2026-02-07
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So, given the public loss and the opaque process, the view that the little we got for PIA is good enough is, in fact, not good enough.
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Privatisation peril
— 2026-01-06
Synonyms
non-transparent, cloudy, filmy, blurred, smeared, hazy, misty, dirty,
Antonyms
transparent, translucent, clear
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