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adjective
- 1. difficult to understand; obscure: "an abstruse philosophical inquiry"
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adjective. formal uk / æbˈstruːs / us / æbˈstruːs / Add to word list. not known or understood by many people: an abstruse philosophical essay. Synonyms. obscure. recherché formal. recondite formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. antinomy. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble.
The meaning of ABSTRUSE is difficult to comprehend : recondite. How to use abstruse in a sentence. Latin Ties Things Together With Abstruse
adjective. formal us / æbˈstruːs / uk / æbˈstruːs / Add to word list. not known or understood by many people: an abstruse philosophical essay. Synonyms. obscure. recherché formal. recondite formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. antinomy. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble.
Definitions of abstruse. adjective. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge. “the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them”. synonyms: deep, recondite. esoteric. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.
adjective. You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply. [formal, disapproval] ...fruitless discussions about abstruse resolutions. Synonyms: obscure, complex, confusing, puzzling More Synonyms of abstruse. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Abstruse definition: hard to understand; recondite; esoteric. See examples of ABSTRUSE used in a sentence.
abstruse - difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
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Definition of abstruse adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract, etc.; deep; recondite. Webster's New World. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. The eternal eye whose sight discerns abstrusest thoughts. Wiktionary. Difficult to comprehend or understand; recondite; obscure; esoteric.
