| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ab·struse |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   b-str s ,  b- |
| ADJECTIVE: | Difficult to understand; recondite. See synonyms at ambiguous. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin abstr sus, past participle of abstrdere, to hide : abs-, ab-, away; see ab–1 + trdere, to push; see treud- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ab·strusely —ADVERB
ab·struseness —NOUN
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