| 单词 | abstruse |
| 释义 | abstruse (once / 3860 pages) adj Abstruse things are difficult to understand because they are so deep and intellectually challenging. It might be hard to figure out how a toilet flushes but the technology that goes into making the Internet function is abstruse. The Latin roots of the word abstruse are about concealing or hiding something, which is a good way to remember the meaning of this word. It is useful when describing something that is overly confusing, or if someone is deliberately making a story or a situation more complicated than necessary. It sounds and looks like obtuse, but abstruse is almost its opposite. Obtuse is dull or lacking a sharpness of intellect. While Abstruse is president of the chess club, Obtuse is hanging out by the parking lot smoking cigarettes. WORD FAMILYabstruse: abstrusely, abstruseness, abstruser, abstrusest, abstrusity+/abstruseness: abstrusenesses/abstrusity: abstrusities USAGE EXAMPLESPlease do not allow a few readers’ highly abstruse tastes and unwarranted criticisms to sway decisions on changing what works best in The Post’s comics. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) For such abstruse fare, it’s brought Paterson, Fehlmann and their collaborators uncommon commercial success. Seattle Times(Oct 21, 2016) But she is known for her more abstruse constructions, and those will be showcased at the Met. New York Times(Oct 21, 2016) adj difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them Syn deep, recondite esoteric confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle |
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