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abstruse
adjective
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
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əbˈstɹuːs
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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”
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The professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
A deep metaphysical theory
Some recondite problem in historiography
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