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abstruse
adjective
(ab-struse)
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Synonyms:
deep
,
recondite
,
Examples:
The professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them.
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abstruse
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esoteric
,
recondite
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deep
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cryptographs
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arcane
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obtuse
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inscrutable
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prosaic
,
obscure
,
metaphysical
,
banal
,
indecipherable
,
incomprehensible
,
comprehensible
,
cryptic
,
ambiguous
,
allusive
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mundane
,
undecipherable
,
discursive
,
nebulous
,
nonsensical
,
erudite
,
philosophical
,
polysyllabic
,
pedantic
,
tricksy
,
wordy
,
prolix
,
unpoetic
,
ludic
,
sententious
,
latinate
,
aphoristic
,
convoluted
,
epistemological
,
idiosyncratic
,
delphic
,
contentless
,
reductive
,
gnomic
,
overdetermined
,
sophistical
,
longwinded
,
nonliterary
,
verbose
,
decipherable
,
prepositional
,
sophistic
,
epigrammatic
,
philosophic
,
terminological
,
referential
,
legalistic
,
complicated
,
formalistic
,
poetical
,
hegelian
,
reductionist
,
poetic
,
psychoanalytical
,
uninteresting
,
syllogistic
,
tautological
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incommunicable
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graspable
,
digressive
,
weighty
,
turgid
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labyrinthine
,
untranslatable
,
nabokovian
,
pretentious
,
jejune
,
polemical
,
pellucid
,
knottier
,
unscholarly
,
theoretical
,
lexicographical
,
denotative
,
compendious
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anthropic
,
trivial
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abstract
,
connotative
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expository
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joycean
,
florid
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unromantic
,
essayistic
,
tangential
,
opaque
,
psychoanalytic
,
metrical
,
jesuitical
,
trite
,
phenomenological
,
positivistic
,
einsteinian
,
abstruse
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