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Examples of abstruse
abstruse
The details may be abstruse, but the general idea is relatively straightforward.
From the economist.com
But bureaucratic squabbles and abstruse coding make that unlikely ever to happen.
From the sfgate.com
It's got an experimental edge, but in a familiar and fun rather than abstruse way.
From the npr.org
The boy, a prodigy, retreats into a private world of abstruse science and physics.
From the time.com
He is highly accessible and tries not to get bogged down in abstruse legal jargon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The subprime crisis also denuded the financial world of its abstruse lexicon.
From the forbes.com
The style of his work is abstruse, dense, and is heavily influenced by New Persian.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Here's a video of him deploying some of his most impressively abstruse words.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yahoo is not the only internet giant delving into abstruse mathematics calculations.
From the newscientist.com
- 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"
- (abstrusely) in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
- (abstruseness) obscureness: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
- (abstruseness) reconditeness: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
- Obscurantism (/u0252bu02C8skju028Au0259ru0259nu02CCtu026Azu0259m, u0259b-/ or /u02CCu0252bskju028Au02C8ru00E6ntu026Azu0259m/) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known...
- Remote from apprehension; difficult to comprehend or understand; recondite; as in abstruse learning; concealed or hidden out of the way
- Means "too difficult to understand for the average mind": The professor presented an abstruse metaphysical concept that went over our heads.
- (adj) - obscure, confusing, difficult
- Difficult to understand
