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Meaning of abstruse in English
Pronunciation
/əbˈstrus/
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Classifying Adjective
abstruse
Definitions
1.
difficult to penetrate
Examples
« 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 »
Synonyms
esoteric