Abstruse \ab-STROOS; uhb-\ (adjective) - Difficult to comprehend or understand.
"When Tony Gate's critical sire had come up from Boston to watch his boy play Fluellen at a rehearsal and had taken him and Ronny out for supper, he offered the argument that the play contained Shakespeare's hidden pacifism and that King Henry's seizin on an abtruse dynastic claim for the French crown had been only the bald excuse for his arrant imperialism." -- Louis Aushincloss, 'East Side Story'
Abstruse comes from Latin abstrusus, past participle of abstrudere, "to push away from any place, to hide," from ab-, abs-, "away from" + trudere, "to push, to thrust."
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