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abstruse
/əbˈstɹus/
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What does abstruse mean?
adjective
- Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.
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adjective
- (obsolete) Concealed or hidden; secret.
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Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the little tedium of the way with penny-papers.
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules.
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I select this mainly because it involves only elementary principles, requires no abstruse reasoning, and because all controversy regarding it is ended.
One great advantage of this method is that theory cannot lose itself in abstruse disquisitions, subtleties, and chimeras, but must always remain practical.
In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.