abstruse

Definitions


[əbˈstruːs], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- difficult to understand; obscure
(e.g: an abstruse philosophical inquiry)


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Origin:
mid 16th century: from Latin abstrusus ‘put away, hidden’, from abstrudere ‘conceal’, from ab- ‘from’ + trudere ‘to push’




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