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The professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them.abstruse = difficult to understand
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Her research explored an abstruse corner of ancient philosophy that few outside the field had ever heard of.abstruse = little known
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She wanted a bottom-line answer without the abstruse analysis.abstruse = difficult to understand
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At sixteen, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's famously abstruse masterpiece Principia Mathematica. (source)
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Newt and the Raineys left the more abstruse questions to others and spent most of their time trying to reckon the economics of a visit to town. (source)
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abstruse matter (source)
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It's less . . . abstruse. (source)abstruse = not known by the great majority of people
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Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.† (source)abstruseness = the quality of being difficult to understandstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Mean while the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount, And from within the golden lamps that burn Nightly before him, saw without their light Rebellion rising; saw in whom, how spread Among the sons of morn, what multitudes Were banded to oppose his high decree; And, smiling, to his only Son thus said.† (source)Abstrusest = the most difficult to understand; or the least known by people
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...the argument as to what they were supposedly arguing about grew extraordinarily involved and abstruse, (source)abstruse = difficult to understand
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But our most popular prophets were undoubtedly those who in an apocalyptic jargon had announced sequences of events, any one of which might be construed as applicable to the present state of affairs and was abstruse enough to admit of almost any interpretation. (source)
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The subject is not so abstruse as I thought it was. (source)
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She was fond of investigating abstruse scientific questions. (source)
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Here the class was reciting a lesson from an abstruse text-book on economics, reciting it by rote, with so obvious a failure to assimilate it that the waste of labour was pitiful. (source)
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Dr. Bell is proficient in many fields of science, and has the art of making every subject he touches interesting, even the most abstruse theories. (source)
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There are scholars among them, who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lore, connected with the divine profession, than Mr. Dimmesdale had lived; and who might well, therefore, be more profoundly versed in such solid and valuable attainments than their youthful brother. (source)
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