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obscurist

obscurist

English

Noun

obscurist (plural obscurists)

  1. one who creates ambiguous works.
    • 2009 January 2, The Guardian,, “Mark Lawson: Big Brother's grandpa”, in The Guardian:
      Some of the dramatist's obituaries treated him as an intellectual obscurist who never quite broke through to the general public; but his plays for ITV in the 1960s were seen by dozens of millions, part of the democratisation of drama that the new medium achieved.