Associations to the word «Abstruse»

ABSTRUSE, adjective. (obsolete) Concealed or hidden out of the way; secret. [Attested from the late 16th century until the mid 18th century.]

ABSTRUSE, adjective. Difficult to comprehend or understand; recondite; obscure; esoteric. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

ABSTRUSE, 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"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography".