| abstruse | (adj) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge, Syn. deep, recondite, Example: the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them; a deep metaphysical theory; some recondite problem in historiography |
| abstrusely | (adv) in a manner difficult to understand, Example: the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students |
| obscureness | (n) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand, Syn. reconditeness, obscurity, abstruseness, Ant. clarity |
| reconditeness | (n) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound, Syn. profoundness, profundity, abstruseness, abstrusity, Example: the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs |
| 深邃 | [shēn suì, ㄕㄣ ㄙㄨㄟˋ, 深 邃] deep (valley or night); abstruse; hidden in depth #17,275 [Add to Longdo] |
| 深奥 | [shēn ào, ㄕㄣ ㄠˋ, 深 奥 / 深 奧] profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly #25,904 [Add to Longdo] |
| 玄妙 | [xuán miào, ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄇㄧㄠˋ, 玄 妙] mysterious; profound; abstruse #35,256 [Add to Longdo] |
| 玄奥 | [xuán ào, ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄠˋ, 玄 奥 / 玄 奧] abstruse; profound mystery; the mysteries of the universe #61,942 [Add to Longdo] |
| 艰深 | [jiān shēn, ㄐㄧㄢ ㄕㄣ, 艰 深 / 艱 深] abstruse; complicated #76,135 [Add to Longdo] |
| 玄秘 | [xuán mì, ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄇㄧˋ, 玄 秘] mystery; mysterious; occult; abstruse doctrine (e.g. religious) #122,719 [Add to Longdo] |
| 艰深晦涩 | [jiān shēn huì sè, ㄐㄧㄢ ㄕㄣ ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄙㄜˋ, 艰 深 晦 涩 / 艱 深 晦 澀] abstruse and unphathomable (成语 saw) #258,646 [Add to Longdo] |
| 玄远 | [xuán yuǎn, ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄩㄢˇ, 玄 远 / 玄 遠] profound; abstruse mystery #326,174 [Add to Longdo] |
| 沕 | [wù, ㄨˋ, 沕] abstruse; profound #362,632 [Add to Longdo] |
| 眑 | [yǎo, ㄧㄠˇ, 眑] sunken eyes; deep; abstruse [Add to Longdo] |