abstrusive

English

Etymology

abstruse +‎ -ive

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əbˈstɹuː.sɪv/
(US) IPA^(key): /æbˈstɹu.sɪv/, /əbˈstɹu.sɪv/

Adjective

abstrusive (comparative more abstrusive, superlative most abstrusive)

(rare) Of abstruse quality. [First attested in the mid 17^th century.][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

abstrusively

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.

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