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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. abstruse: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  2. abstruse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. abstruse: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. abstruse: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. abstruse: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. abstruse: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Abstruse: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. abstruse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. abstruse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. abstruse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Abstruse, abstruse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. abstruse: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. abstruse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. Abstruse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. abstruse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. abstruse: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Abstruse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. abstruse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. abstruse: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  20. abstruse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. abstruse: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  22. abstruse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. abstruse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. abstruse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. abstruse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abstruse: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abstruse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abstruse: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (abstruse)

adjective:  difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge ("The professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them")

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