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Definition of
Abstruse
Abstruse
ab·struse
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(adjective)
(formal) deep, obscure, or little-known, difficult to comprehend or understand;
e.g. They became engaged in an abstruse discussion of historical events.
Similar Words
Arcane
Deep
Esoteric
Hermetic
Imponderable
Profound
Recondite
Scabrous
Stressful
Unknowable
Opposite Words
Apparent
Cheap
Clear
Clear-cut
Comprehensible
Distinct
Downhill
Easy
Effortless
Evident
Facile
Fluent
Fluid
Intelligible
Light
Lucid
Manifest
Obvious
Perspicuous
Plain
Ready
Royal
Shallow
Smooth
Snap
Straightforward
Superficial
Transparent
User-friendly
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Ambiguous
Arcane
Arduous
Backbreaking
Baffling
Bewildering
Catchy
Challenging
Complex
Complicated
Cryptic
Dark
Darkling
Delicate
Delphic
Demanding
Difficult
Dodgy
Double-edged
Elliptical
Enigmatic
Equivocal
Erudite
Exacting
Formidable
Fuliginous
Grueling
Hairy
Hard
Hellacious
Herculean
Impenetrable
Incomprehensible
Inscrutable
Killer
Knotty
Laborious
Learned
Moiling
Murderous
Murky
Mysterious
Mystic
Mystical
Nebulous
Obscure
Occult
Opaque
Orphic
Pedantic
Perplexing
Prickly
Problematic
Puzzling
Rigorous
Rough
Rugged
Scholarly
Sensitive
Severe
Spiny
Sticky
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Strenuous
Sweaty
Tall
Testing
Thorny
Ticklish
Toilsome
Touchy
Tough
Tricksy
Tricky
Unanswerable
Uncanny
Unfathomable
Ungraspable
Unintelligible
Unknowable
Uphill
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