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abstruse

/æb'strus/

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adjective
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
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"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"

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deep recondite esoteric

Examples of abstruse

"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"