abstruse /əbˈstruːs/
adjective
meaning: difficult to understand; obscure.difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
"an abstruse philosophical inquiry"
"you are not the only one who finds Einstein's theory of relativity abstruse"
synonyms: obscure, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, rarefied, recondite, difficult, hard, puzzling, perplexing, enigmatic, inscrutable, cryptic, complex, complicated, involved, over/above one's head, incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, mysterious; rareinvolute, involuted
"he was unable to follow the abstruse arguments put forward"
"her subject matter is abstruse"
antonyms: clear, obvious, shallow, superficial
Origin:
Latin abstrusus, from past participle of abstrudere to conceal, from abs-, ab- + trudere to push
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