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Synonyms for abstruse in English

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abstruse:
- abstruse; obscure; difficult to understand
- deep; abstruse; recondite

English

Detailed Synonyms for abstruse in English

abstruse:

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obscure; abstruse; difficult to understand

abstruse adj

abstruse

– difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge ¹
deep; abstruse; recondite
– difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge ¹
- deep adj
  - a deep metaphysical theory¹
- abstruse adj
  - the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them¹
- recondite adj
  - some recondite problem in historiography¹

Related Words for "abstruse":

abstruseness, abstruser, abstrusest, abstrusely

Alternate Synonyms for "abstruse":

deep; recondite; esoteric

Related Definitions for "abstruse":

difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge¹
- the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University