reconditeformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult to understand
abstrusely
ambiguity
ambiguous
ambiguously
antinomy
esoterically
fathomless
fathomlessly
garble
get it into your thick headidiom
labyrinthine
lost
non-intuitive
obscurely
obscurity
unreadable
verbiage
verbosely
verbosity
wasted on someoneidiom

Examples of abstruse

abstruse
However, ' learners ' acquire the correct distribution through an abstruse mathematical formula based on (arbitrarily assigned) word frequencies.
Yet its speakers accomplished this without becoming faddish, abstruse or insensitive to the special demands that music makes on its exegetes.
The analysis is clearly written and renders these sometimes quite abstruse theories more accessible.
The author mentions this intriguing invention, but rather tantalisingly does not give details before passing on to more abstruse matters.
All of this abstruse theorizing is supposed to help me get up and get on with my day.
One of my considerations is, of course, to know if a listener can identify with this more abstruse type of musical expression.
His theorising is neither abstruse nor detached from a firm base in the history of the modern world.
Even the direction of abstruse developments in pure mathematics may be conditioned, if not fixed, by current extra-scientific, economic requirements.
Its abstruse philosophical difficulties and its linguistic complexities are easily converted into a widely accessible form, with no need for the mediation of commentaries.
Written in the mannered style of the culturalstudies school, it lacks clarity and sometimes descends into the abstruse.
For that, it must avoid sectarianism and abstruse verbalism.
In discussing how fungi played a role in the diet the authors draw attention to their food value in a rather abstruse way.
His work was abstruse and impenetrable, his demeanor reserved, and his resistance to using the bully pulpit to comment on current economic events unprecedented.
For many practitioners it is easier to envisage massing varied fragments of sound than it is to master the often abstruse mathematics and complex formulae of waveguide synthesis.
Schloss's arguments, at times, become difficult to follow, and even abstruse.
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