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abstractitious

adj.
C2 Proficiency ab·strac·ti·tious Archaic

adj. describes something that is very hard to understand or explain. It is an old word used to talk about ideas that are too complex for simple words.

adj. characterised by extreme complexity or difficulty in comprehension.


SIMPLE

The philosopher's abstractitious ideas confused the students.

CONTEXTUAL

The professor struggled to explain the abstractitious nature of the mathematical theory to the younger researchers.

COMPLEX

The text was so abstractitious that even seasoned scholars found it difficult to extract a clear thesis from the dense, metaphor-laden prose.

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