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- Dictionaryab·struse/əbˈstro͞os/
adjective
- 1. difficult to understand; obscure: "an abstruse philosophical inquiry"
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The meaning of ABSTRUSE is difficult to comprehend : recondite. How to use abstruse in a sentence. Latin Ties Things Together With Abstruse
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. 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.
Abstruse definition: hard to understand; recondite; esoteric. See examples of ABSTRUSE used in a sentence.
Dictionary definition of abstruse. Extremely difficult to understand, often due to its complex, intricate, or deeply intellectual nature. "The company's technical manual was filled with abstruse jargon." Detailed meaning of abstruse.
noun. Word origin. C16: from Latin abstrūsus thrust away, concealed, from abs- ab-1 + trūdere to thrust. abstruse in American English. (æbˈstrus ; əbˈstrus ) adjective. hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract, etc.; deep; recondite. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
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.
Definition of abstruse adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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"
