Abstruse
21abstruse — /əbˈstrus / (say uhb stroohs) adjective 1. difficult to understand; esoteric: *these represent no loss, dealing as they do with mathematical matters rather too abstruse to comprehend. –david foster, 1981. 2. Obsolete hidden. {Latin abstrūsus,… …
22abstruse — adj. hard to understand; obscure; profound. Derivatives: abstrusely adv. abstruseness n. Etymology: F abstruse or L abstrusus (as AB , trusus past part. of trudere push) …
23abstruse knowledge — index secret Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
24abstruse — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, abstract, arcane, arduous, beclouded, blind, brutal, buried, civilized, close, clouded, complex, complicated, concealed, covered, covert, critical, cultivated, cultured, deep, delicate, demanding, difficile …
25abstruse — ab·struse || æb struËs adj. ambiguous, difficult to understand obscure …
26abstruse — [əb stru:s] adjective difficult to understand. Derivatives abstrusely adverb abstruseness noun Origin C16: from L. abstrus , abstrudere conceal , from ab from + trudere to push …
27abstruse — a. Recondite, remote, occult, profound, hidden, transcendental, obscure, difficult, dark, vague, indefinite, enigmatical, mysterious, mystic, mystical, high, abstract, abstracted, subtile, refined, attenuated, rarified …
28abstruse — adjective formal difficult to understand in a way that seems unnecessarily complicated abstrusely adverb abstruseness noun (U) …
29abstruse — adj profound, deep, esoteric, recondite, abstract; impenetrable, incomprehensible, uncom prehensible, past or beyond comprehension, unknowable, inscrutable, unfathomable, incognizable, indecipherable, undecipherable, beyond understanding; mystic …
30abstruse — ab·struse …
