Question

From the below mentioned words, choose the word whose meaning if different from the others:
Famous, Renowned, Eminent, Obscure
A) Famous
B) Renowned
C) Eminent
D) Obscure

Answer 1

Hint: Here in this question, we have to choose the word whose meaning is different from the others. So, basically it is talking about the antonyms. So, antonyms are the words that have different or the opposite meaning of the word. For example: the antonym of beautiful is ugly.

Complete answer:
Let us look into the given options:
Here, four words are given (Famous, Renowned, Eminent, Obscure) and out of these words we have to identify the word whose meaning is different from the other three words.
Option A) Famous – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of famous is ‘well known to many people’. Synonyms of the word famous are: well-known, celebrated, prominent, famed, popular. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Renowned – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of renowned is ‘a person or place who is well known for something’ and the synonym of the word renowned are: famous, eminent, prominent, great, famous’ and this word’s meaning is similar to the meaning of the option A. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) Eminent - is an incorrect answer because the meaning of eminent is ‘famous or important’ and the synonym of the word eminent are: famous, eminent, prominent, great, famous’ and this word’s meaning is similar to the meaning of the option A and option B. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) Obscure – is the correct answer because the meaning of obscure is ‘vague or ambiguous or cryptic’. Thus, the meaning of the word ‘obscure’ is completely opposite or different from the other words. Thus, this is the correct answer.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘D’.

Note: There are two words namely: Antonyms and the synonyms. Antonyms give the opposite meaning of the word and synonyms give the same meaning of the word. So, famous – renowned – eminent are synonyms of each other and can be used in place of each other. Whereas, obscure has the opposite meaning that is the antonym of obscure is famous or renowned or eminent.