What is the meaning of abstruse?

adjective

  • Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.
    • usage: "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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