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English
Etymology
From abstruse + -ive.
Pronunciation
Adjective
abstrusive (comparative more abstrusive, superlative most abstrusive)
- (rare) Of abstruse quality. [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,...
Derived terms
References
- ^ 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.