- 2. Dagger (in printing).
Obese, a. Fat, fleshy, corpulent, stout, plump, portly, gross.
Obesity, n. Fleshiness, fatness, corpulence, corpulency, plumpness, embonpoint, obeseness.
Obfuscate, v. a.
- 1. Darken, cloud, obscure.
- 2. Bewilder, confuse, muddle.
Obit, n.
- 1. Funeral rite, obsequies.
- 2. Death, decease.
Obituary, n. Necrology.
Object, n.
- 1. Thing, reality, particular, existence, fact, phenomenon, percept, thing perceived, external reality.
- 2. Mark, aim, target, butt; goal, end, destination; recipient, correlate, or complement (of a conscious
subject).
- 3. End, aim, intent, intention, purpose, design, motive, use, view, drift, goal, final cause.
- 4. (Gram.) Regimen, complement.
Objection, n. Exception, difficulty, doubt, scruple.
Objectionable, a. Exceptionable.
Objective, a.
- 1. Belonging to or characterizing the object (as distinguished from the subject).
- 2. Outward, external, real, actual, positive, true, unconditional, universal, non-subjective, free from subjective
limits.
- 3. Absorbed in objects, non-introversive, free from introversion, wholly occupied with the object or fact,
that tells things as they are, that does not color facts, that paints things in their own light, extroitive (rare).