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Abstruse

  1. adjective

    difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

    the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them

    Similar: deep, recondite

Word family

abstruseness · abstrusity · abstrusely

Do not confuse with

Obtuse

Words that mean the same

Unclear and Vague

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