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- DictionaryAb·struse/əbˈstro͞os/
adjective
- 1. difficult to understand; obscure: "an abstruse philosophical inquiry"
The meaning of ABSTRUSE is difficult to comprehend : recondite. How to use abstruse in a sentence. Latin Ties Things Together With Abstruse
not known or understood by many people: an abstruse philosophical essay. Synonyms. obscure. recherché formal. recondite formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. antinomy. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble. get it into your thick head idiom. labyrinthine. lost. non-intuitive.
Abstruse definition: hard to understand; recondite; esoteric. See examples of ABSTRUSE used in a sentence.
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.
adjective. formal us / æbˈstruːs / uk / æbˈstruːs / Add to word list. not known or understood by many people: an abstruse philosophical essay. Synonyms. obscure. recherché formal. recondite formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. antinomy. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble.
You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
Definition of abstruse adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Abstruse Definition. Difficult to understand; recondite. The students avoided the professor's abstruse lectures. Hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract, etc.; deep; recondite. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost.
abstruse - difficult to penetrate; 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"
