Abstruse

Abstruse analysis makes for unreadable books.

For this reason alone, the idea that humanity can protect the climate is abstruse.

All of this may seem to be the abstruse rantings of a retired trial lawyer until one asks this question: How would I want to be treated if, God forbid, I wound up in the same situation as Mr. Gaetz or the Duke lacrosse team members or President Trump?

Marcy spends much of her day raging at the people who have gotten the details of this abstruse wrong, including me.

Modern grandmaster chess, which is based heavily on a deep knowledge of opening theory, is more abstruse and may be best avoided until you have acquired deep expertise.

The answers to all of the smaller Hunt puzzles combine to form many abstruse and devilish “meta” puzzles, which in turn weave together to form impossibly fiendish “meta meta” puzzles, all of which is in aid of racing to find a hidden somewhere on campus.

Their indoctrination of students in strange leftist doctrines, their elevation of race and gender above all other concerns, their increasingly abstruse theories about victimization, and their pretensions to esoteric knowledge and moral superiority.

However, this paper was in an abstruse and difficult form, in part because he had restricted himself to only six pages, in order to save money on printing.

Iconography, often convoluted and abstruse, is a more prominent element in the Mannerist styles.

In one show, the topic on The Money Programme is fiscal policy and other matters monetary, and Masher asks some very abstruse questions about the Bank of England and its role in the economy.

Milton was disdainful of the university curriculum, which consisted of stilted formal debates conducted in Latin on abstruse topics.

Poems of Sultan Yunus Emre — despite being fairly simple on the surface — evidence his skill in describing quite abstruse mystical concepts in a clear way.

Psychiatrists hated them, and they were much too abstruse for the general public.