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- Dictionaryabstruse/əbˈstruːs/
adjective
- 1. difficult to understand; obscure: "an abstruse philosophical inquiry"
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The meaning of ABSTRUSE is difficult to comprehend : recondite. How to use abstruse in a sentence. Latin Ties Things Together With Abstruse
adjective. formal uk / æbˈstruːs / us / 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.
Abstruse definition: hard to understand; recondite; esoteric. See examples of ABSTRUSE used in a sentence.
adjective. 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.
obtuse – not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; dull, blunt, unfeeling, tactless, insensitive: an obtuse statement made without considering its effect; slow, dim; boorish; indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.
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.
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.
difficult to understand. Definition of abstruse adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
