abstrusive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]abstrusive (comparative more abstrusive, superlative most abstrusive)
- (rare) Of abstruse quality. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]
- 1996, Alexander Durig, Autism and Crisis of Meaning:
- ...and I have given the reader such a dose of mathematics, psychology, and all that is abstrusive, that I fear that he may already have left me,...
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstrusive”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.