abstruse – difficult to understand; obscure
(Pronounced ab-stroos)
To remember the definition of the word abstruse, use the following mnemonic:
It was absurd, but we agreed to a truce (abstruse) despite finding it difficult to understand each other.
Examples of abstruse in a sentence
His stories were filled with tangents and irrelevant details making them very abstruse.
She managed to explain the abstruse theory in a way that the whole group could understand.
He was quite clearly trying to make the problem seem more abstruse than it actually was.
