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abstruse

British pronunciation/ɐbstɹˈuːs/
American pronunciation/əbˈstɹus/
abstruse
[ADJECTIVE]
1

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

synonyms : deep
recondite
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Examples
1Three abstruse ingredients that go into Fermat's Last Theorem.
2It's a rather abstruse area.
3It had to do with an issue, an abstruse mathematical issue, having to do with quadratic forms.
4Pound's poetry is full of learned and abstruse reference.
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