abstruse
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- s difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
- If the President is to succeed with his domestic-policy agenda, he needs to convince people that action is necessary on these abstruse issues.
- Anne Burrell, star of the new Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, says she's likewise wary of intentionally abstruse menu language.
- Solving such monstrous problems requires the use of an abstruse branch of mathematics known as linear programming.