| ADJECTIVE | all | abstruse, deep, recondite | difficult to penetrate |
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| Sounds | ahbstruw's | |
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| Rhymes | abuse ... Zeus: 40 rhymes with uws... | |
| Meaning | Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge. | |
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| Example | "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them" | |
| Synonyms | deep, recondite | |
| Broader | esoteric | Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle |
| Spanish | abstruso, obscuro, recóndito | |
| Nouns | abstruseness | the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand |
| abstruseness, abstrusity | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | |
| Adverbs | abstrusely | in a manner difficult to understand |
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