Abstruse
Difficult to understand; obscure or highly complex.
adjectiveAbstruse
Difficult to understand; obscure or highly complex.
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Imagine This
Abs -> Sounds and looks like Absent. Abs_truth -> Absent of truth. Things that are absent of truth are usually difficult to understand.
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Sounds Like
ab-STROOS
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Looks Like
Looks like 'abstract' or 'absent'.
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Remember This
Remember this: Abstruse shares a root with abstract, both hinting at concealment or removal from plain understanding.
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Other Forms
abstruselyadverb
abstrusenessnoun
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Note
Use abstruse to describe ideas, arguments, or writings that are genuinely hard to understand; avoid applying it to everyday tasks or people unless you mean their ideas are hard to grasp.