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abstruse

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8 lettersPronunciation /əbˈstɹuːs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abersstuStarts with AEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin abstrūsus (“concealed, hidden; having been concealed”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of abstrūdō (“to conceal, hide; to push or thrust away”), from abs- (from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; away from’)) + trūdō (“to push, shove; to thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push; to thrust”)).

Used in a sentence

  • Be leſs abſtruſe, my riddling days are paſt.
  • In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge, and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
  • After the subject (victim, if you like) had read say thirty of the best solid novels of the twentieth century, I think I should draw him to the more abstruse modern novels and stories.

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