abstruse
— Adjective
– English
~ difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
abstrusely
— Adverb
– English
~ in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
abstruseness
— Noun
– English
~ wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
abstruseness
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
abstrusity
— Noun
– English
~ wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
absurd
— Adjective
– English
~ so unreasonable as to invite derision; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
absurd
— Adjective
– English
~ inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
absurd
— Noun
– English
~ a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus