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   ab·struse

   /əbˈstro͞os/

   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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   Synonyms for ABSTRUSE: esoteric, profound, recondite, ambiguous, arcane, hermetic, scholarly, confusing; Antonyms of ABSTRUSE: superficial, shallow, simple, easy, straightforward, intelligible, understandable, comprehensible.

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   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.

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