Abstruse (adj)
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Difficult to understand; obscure.
Late 16th century: from Latin abstrusus ‘put away, hidden’, from abstrudere ‘conceal’, from ab- ‘from’ + trudere ‘to push’.
Example sentences
“In all honesty it was an abstruse request anyway.”
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