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Meaning of 'abstruse' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Abstruse [ a.]
- Concealed or hidden out of the way.
- Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.

Meaning of 'abstruse' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . abstruse [ s]
Meaning (1):
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Example in sentence:
  • a deep metaphysical theory;
  • some recondite problem in historiography;
  • the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them

Nearby Words:

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