abstrusive

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English

Etymology

From abstruse +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

Adjective

abstrusive (comparative more abstrusive, superlative most abstrusive)

  1. (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,...

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References

  1. ^ 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.