abstruse
IPA: ʌbstrˈus
adjective
- Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.
- (obsolete) Concealed or hidden; secret.
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Examples of "abstruse" in Sentences
- Some of them are rather abstruse.
- I find the argument too abstruse.
- However, the opening definition is abstruse.
- Let the following paragraphs become abstruse.
- The work contains a mass of abstruse learning.
- Also, the last paragraph is deep, abstruse and sketchy.
- It's fairly neutral, bland, abstruse and moves the article.
- This combines love of the abstruse with a subjective assessment.
- The field is abstruse and uses terminology that is hard to understand.
- (And as long as you're looking stuff up, please check "abstruse" for me.)
- Chinese and asian history are severely distorted in this abstruse fabrication.
- Very enthusiastic, I remember they said you were, on certain abstruse points in comparative philology.
- Newspapers are busy with extracts; -- much complaining that it is "abstruse," neological, hard to get the meaning of.
- Madam, all minds are not gifted with the necessary qualities which the delicacy of those fine sciences called abstruse require.
- I would rather phrase abstruse medicaments of rare application; perhaps it is not very necessary, but at least it isn't cheap. "
- Greek, and Hebrew languages, and perfectly well knew not only the sciences called abstruse, but those arts which come under the denomination of polite literature.
- Many hedge funds piled up fortunes with abstruse mathematical trading strategies that paid little attention to the individuals or companies underlying their trades.
- Belle does some kind of abstruse Boswellising; after the first meal, having gauged the kind of jests that would pay here, I observed, ‘Boswell is Barred during this cruise.’
- I choose to believe instead that Spinrad is engaging in some kind of abstruse wordplay in which “Mike Resnick is an African SF writer” is revealed to be a pun or a palindrome or something, rather than something that he thought would be a useful addition to the discussion.
- I am now approaching the border land of what may be called the abstruse in science, in which I humbly acknowledge it would take a vast volume to contain all I don't know; yet I hope to make plain to you this most beautiful and accurate method, and for fear I may forget to give due credit, I will say that I am indebted to Dr. Hastings for it, with whom it was an original discovery, though he told me he afterward found it had been in use by