retruse

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English

Etymology

From Latin retrusus (“concealed”), past participle of retrudere.

Adjective

retruse (comparative more retruse, superlative most retruse)

  1. Thrust backward; retruding.
  2. (obsolete) abstruse[1]
    • 1662, Henry More, Preface to A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings
      I have a sense of something in me while I thus speak, which I must confess is of so retruse a nature that I want a name for it, unless I should adventure to term it

References

  1. ^ “retruse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

retrūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of retrūsus
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