Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abstruse or recondite manner; in a manner not to be easily understood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an abstruse manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner difficult to understand
Etymologies
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Examples
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While the history of '00s New York dance-rock tilts toward the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem, the band known abstrusely as !!!
Music With an Exclamation Point Andy Battaglia 2011
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Hippocrates had once abstrusely opined that cancer was “best left untreated, since patients live longer that way.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Hippocrates had once abstrusely opined that cancer was “best left untreated, since patients live longer that way.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Hippocrates had once abstrusely opined that cancer was “best left untreated, since patients live longer that way.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Especially in time of stress, of war or social unrest, men have felt a certain callousness about the interests of the abstrusely remote scholar.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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Tablet which, however misconstrued at first as an exposition of the science of divination, was later recognized to have unravelled, on the one hand, the mystery of the Musta_gh_á_th_, and to have abstrusely alluded, on the other, to the nineteen years which must needs elapse between the
God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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"A day's journey by tonga matures acquaintanceships wonderfully," he observed abstrusely.
The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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Mary Virginia often talked as the alchemists used to write -- cryptically, abstrusely, as if to hide the golden truth from all but the initiate.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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He contrived to preserve, in the most abstrusely philosophical of these writings, a simplicity and clarity which, although they have not commended him to professional metaphysicians, make his attitude to the problems of metaphysics extremely intelligible.
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He contrived to preserve, in the most abstrusely philosophical of these writings, a simplicity and clarity which, although they have not commended him to professional metaphysicians, make his attitude to the problems of metaphysics extremely intelligible.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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