Abstruse has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Adjective
1
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"
"a deep metaphysical theory"
"some recondite problem in historiography"
2
Difficult to comprehend or understand.
Example Sentences
"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"
adjective
"a deep metaphysical theory"
adjective
"some recondite problem in historiography"
adjective
Origin
The word comes from the Latin term abstrūsus, meaning "concealed" or "hidden." It is formed by combining a prefix meaning "away" with a root that means "to push."