abstruse

Letters that make abstruse

s, a, b, e, r, t, u are letters that make 'abstruse'

Words within abstruse

AB, ab, BS, SE, use, ruse, Rus, US, ABS, Ru, Se, Ab are words within 'abstruse'


1 possible definitions for 'abstruse'

Abstruse as "difficult to penetrate, incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge"

Under this definition, abstruse is an adjective and has the following properties:

Synonyms

deep, recondite have the same meaning as 'abstruse'

Derivatives of abstruse

obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness, profundity, profoundness, abstrusity are derivatives of 'abstruse'.

Similar to abstruse

esoteric is similar to abstruse.

Example of abstruse used within this context

"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them", "a deep metaphysical theory", "some recondite problem in historiography"



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