OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 280

abstruse

/əbˈstɹuːs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abstruso • conceptuoso
Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.
A second rescript followed, commanding all bishops not merely to subscribe the dominant opinions on these profound and abstruse topics, but to condemn their authors, Pelagius and C…
In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge, and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.