Obscure vs. Fog — What's the Difference?

Deficient in light; dark

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.

So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km)

Indistinctly heard; faint.

A state or cause of perplexity or confusion

(Linguistics) Having the reduced, neutral sound represented by schwa (ə).

The grass which grows in a field after a crop of hay has been taken.

Far from centers of human population

(with reference to a glass surface) cover or become covered with steam

Out of sight; hidden

Bewilder or puzzle

Not readily noticed or seen; inconspicuous

Spray with an insecticide.

Of undistinguished or humble station or reputation

Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.

Not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague

An obscuring haze, as of atmospheric dust or smoke.

To make dim, indistinct, or impossible to see

A mist or film clouding a surface, as of a window, lens, or mirror.

To make difficult to discern mentally or understand

A cloud of vaporized liquid, especially a chemical spray used in fighting fires.

To diminish the stature of; overshadow or detract from

A state of mental vagueness or bewilderment.

(Linguistics) To reduce (a vowel) to the neutral sound represented by schwa (ə).

Something that obscures or conceals; a haze

Something obscure or unknown.

A blur on a developed photographic image.

Dark, faint or indistinct.

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.

Tall, coarse grass left standing in fields through the winter.

Difficult to understand.

To cover or envelop with fog.

Not well-known.

To cause to be obscured; cloud.

Unknown or uncertain; unclear.

To make vague, hazy, or confused

(transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

To obscure or dim (a photographic image).

(transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.

To be covered with fog.

To conceal oneself; to hide.

To be blurred, clouded, or obscured

Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

To be dimmed or obscured. Used of a photographic image.

Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. mist, haze.}}

Not noticeable; humble; mean.

(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or incomprehensible; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects.

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

(computer graphics) Distance fog.

To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark.

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

Obscurity.

Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.

Make less visible or unclear;

(Scotland) Moss.

Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred;

(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.

Make obscure or unclear;

(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.

Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;

To become dim or obscure.

Make difficult to perceive by sight;

To make dim or obscure.

Not clearly understood or expressed;

To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.

Marked by difficulty of style or expression;

(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.

Difficult to find;

(transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

Not famous or acclaimed;

(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.

Not drawing attention;

(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

Remote and separate physically or socially;

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

(transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).

(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

A state of mental confusion.

Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.

To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Make less visible or unclear;