🔤 Abstruse (Adjective)

IPA: //əbˈstruːs//

✨ Use abstruse when something is not just hard—it’s intellectually tangled and mentally demanding.

🧠 Meaning

Difficult to understand; obscure or overly complex in meaning.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 The professor's lectures were so abstruse that half the class stopped attending.

🔹 Her poetry is beautiful but abstruse—it demands a second and third reading.

📜 Word Origin

From Latin abstrusus meaning “hidden” or “concealed,” from ab- ("away") + trudere ("to push").

💡 Did You Know?

Abstruse is for those ideas or texts that make your brain sweat—dense, academic, or philosophically deep.

🏷️ Related Words

#obscure #complex #enigmatic #esoteric #perplexing #arcane

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