Abstruse (Adjective)
Meaning
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The philosopher's abstruse treatise on existentialism left many readers scratching their heads.
- Her new novel was full of abstruse allusions to mythology and symbolism, which only a few critics could decipher.
- The math problem was so abstruse that even the department head couldn't solve it.
- The art critic's abstruse explanation of the painting's meaning confused everyone in the gallery.
- The economist's use of abstruse language made his policy recommendations inaccessible to most lawmakers.