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Abstruse

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Adjective

1. abstruse, deep, recondite

difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

Example Sentences:
'the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them'
'a deep metaphysical theory'
'some recondite problem in historiography'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Abstruse

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adjective
not easy to understand; recondite; esoteric

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Abstruse

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adjective
hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract, etc.; deep; recondite

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Abstruse

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adj.
Difficult to understand; recondite: The students avoided the professor's abstruse lectures.

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