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English adjective: abstruse

1. abstruse difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge


SamplesThe professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them.
A deep metaphysical theory.
Some recondite problem in historiography.


Synonymsdeep, recondite


Similaresoteric


Antonymsexoteric









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