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Word: Abstruse
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from Latin abstrusus ‘put away, hidden’, from abstrudere ‘conceal’, from ab- ‘from’ + trudere ‘to push’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əbˈstruːs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
difficult to understand; obscure
Short Definition:difficult to understand
Examples:- an abstruse philosophical inquiry
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