Abstruse

There are certain things in life that are very hard to understand. Let us take a few examples. For some, mathematics is very difficult to understand so for them it becomes an abstruse subject. For others, world matters of wealth and money are hard to fathom and decipher so for those individuals economic systems are abstruse systems. And for some it is extremely hard to understand why they were spurned and rejected by their lover. For these individuals, love is an abstruse subject (these would be the most common of all the categories we have mentioned).

The dictionary definitions for abstruse are as follows:
1. hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.

Masters Tip to remember Abstruse:

Just keep a simple relation in mind to learn this word. We all fall in love and find the emotion very hard to understand, for love is a confusing subject.

Usage Examples for Abstruse:
1. The subject is too abstruse for anyone to understand, and it is better that it is left alone.
2. The machinations for agriculture in the budget this year seem abstruse for the layman to understand them.
3. Abstruse problems in mathematics are very common

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12 Comments

medhaa on July 10, 2016 at 6:20 pm

pronunciation ???

Timus on March 25, 2015 at 12:31 am

Programming is so ‘abstruse’ that I ‘abst_ain from its use’

Vamsy on February 23, 2015 at 6:06 pm

Hi,

Firstly it’s an awesome website for learners.

But if there is an option to navigate to next word directly instead of going back and clicking on the next word it would be much better.

Vamsi Krishna on May 27, 2014 at 10:37 am

Awesome site. Since the past two years I have learnt vocab the harder way. But this way Im able to save a lot of time and learning is fun through this.
One correction: above the second picture, it is written as master tip to remember “Abject” where it should have been abstruse.

prashant on May 29, 2014 at 11:17 am
Hi Vamsi
Thanks for kind words.
Also, made the correction. I think that got picked up from a previous post..:)
regards
Prashant