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Word | Abstruse |
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 / deep, hard to understand, or complicated / Concealed or hidden out of the way. / obscure; profound; difficult to understand / difficult to understand; obscure. / hard to understand, | |
Usage | ⇒ I find maths to be an abstruse subject ⇒ Baffled by the abstruse philosophical texts assigned in class, Dave asked Lexy to explain Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. ⇒ Her subject matter is abstruse. ⇒ an abstruse philosophical inquiry ⇒ I am unable to follow the abstruse arguments put forward |
Synonyms | recondite, obscure, mysterious, deep, intricate, profound, arcane, difficult, esoteric, occult, puzzling, complex, cryptic, incomprehensible, dark, enigmatic, perplexing, unfathomable, complicated, heavy, |
Antonyms | easy, plain, simple, clear, concrete, lucid, obvious, direct, facile, apparent, comprehensible, elementary, evident, exoteric, fluent, intelligible, manifest, perspicuous, ready, straightforward, |
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