Abstruse

a.	1.	Concealed or hidden out of the way. The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. - Milton.
	2.	Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. - Milman.

Adj.

1.

abstruse - 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" Synonyms: recondite, deep

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