abstruse

• Qualifie quelque chose de difficile à comprendre, souvent en raison de sa complexité ou de son manque de clarté.

Describes something that is difficult to understand, often because it is complex or obscure.

1. Difficult to understandC2formal

   Hard to comprehend or grasp; obscure in meaning.

   Difficile à comprendre

   • The professor's lecture on quantum mechanics was too abstruse for the undergraduates.
   • His writing style is often abstruse, filled with complex metaphors.
   • The philosophical text was so abstruse that only a few scholars could interpret it.

   Synonymesarcanecrypticenigmaticesotericincomprehensibleinscrutableobscureopaqueperplexingpuzzlingreconditeunfathomable

   Antonymesaccessibleclearcomprehensibleeasylucidobviousplainsimplestraightforwardunderstandable