abstruse English

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abstruse Adjective

— If something is abstruse, it is very difficult to understand. The book was so abstruse that I didn't understand it.

abstruse

— adjective (= deep, recondite) 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

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deep

recondite

obscure

profound

mysterious

difficult to understand

secret

occult

involved

incomprehensible

complex

arcane

abstract

wise

unrealistic

unintelligible

twilight

thoughtful

subtile

shadowy

searching

prolix

profundity

opaque

mystifying

murky

mirky

minute

knotty

intricate

hidden

haze

gloomy

fine

fall

faint

exquisite

esoteric

elusive

dusk

doctrinaire

dim

difficult

delicate

darkness

dark

crypto

cryptic

crepuscule

crepuscle