Meaning of abstruse in English
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Classifying Adjective
abstruseDefinitions
1. difficult to penetrateExamples
- « 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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- « My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. » Arthur Conan Doyle