Abstruse

Adjective

 * 1) remote from apprehension; difficult to comprehend or understand; recondite; as in abstruse learning.
 * 2)  concealed or hidden out of the way.

Adverbs for Abstruse
disagreeably; unfortunately;  vexatiously; remotely; obscurely; profoundly; extremely; unreasonably; unnecessarily;  needlessly; foolishly; absurdly;  foggily;  senselessly; stupidly; inexpediently; enigmatically; annoyingly; heavily; injudiciously; incomprehensibly; highly; unwisely; preposterously; confusingly; bewilderingly; perplexingly; indiscreetly.

Synonyms for Abstruse
profound, abstract, difficult, subtle, recondite, esoteric.

Antonyms for Abstruse
plain, obvious, clear, open.

Thesaurus
Herculean; abstract; arcane; arduous; beclouded; blind; brutal; buried; civilized; close; clouded; complex; complicated; concealed; covered; covert; critical; cultivated; cultured; deep; delicate; demanding; difficile; difficult; eclipsed; educated; encyclopedic; erudite; esoteric; exacting; formidable; hairy; hard; hard-earned; hard-fought; heavy; hermetic; hid; hidden; hypothetical; ideal; in a cloud; in a fog; in eclipse; in purdah; in the wings; incommunicado; intricate; jawbreaking; knotted; knotty; laborious; latent; learned; lettered; literate; mean; mysterious; no picnic; not easy; obfuscated; obscure; obscured; occult; operose; pansophic; polyhistoric; polymath; polymathic; profound; recondite; rigorous; rough; rugged; scholarly; scholastic; secluded; secluse; secret; sequestered; set with thorns; severe; spiny; steep; strenuous; studious; thorny; ticklish; toilsome; tough; transcendental; tricky; under an eclipse; under cover; under house arrest; under wraps; underground; unknown; uphill; wicked; wise; wrapped in clouds

Etymology
From abstrusus:, the perfect passive participle of abstrudo:; itself from ab:, abs: + trudo:; cognate with French abstrus: and German abstrus:.

Derived terms

 * abstrusely
 * abstruseness

Related terms

 * abstrude
 * abstrusion

Translations

 * Bulgarian: неясен, труден за разбиране
 * Dutch: onbevattelijk, ondoorgrondelijk
 * Finnish:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: abstruso


 * Bulgarian: скрит


 * Dutch:, versluierd


 * : abstrus, unfaßbar

Adjective

 * 1) feminine inflection of abstrus

Anagrams

 * arbustes