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   abstruse

   /əbˈstruːs/

   adjective

   • 1. difficult to understand; obscure: "an abstruse philosophical inquiry"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin abstrusus ‘put away, hidden’, from abstrudere ‘conceal’, from ab- ‘from’ + trudere ‘to push’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. abstrusely adverb
   • 2. abstruseness noun

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