英语
词源
借自法语 abstrus[1]或拉丁语 abstrūsus (“隐藏的”)，abstrūdō (“隐藏，推开”) 的完成过去分词[2]，源自ab, abs (“离开”) + trūdō (“推”)。[3]和德语 abstrus 同源。
发音
形容词
abstruse（比较级 abstruser 或 more abstruse，最高级 abstrusest 或 most abstruse）
近义词
- (隐藏的)： clandestine, secret, surreptitious
- (难懂的)： esoteric, obscure, recondite
派生词汇
- abstrusely
- abstruseness
异序词
- Staubers, Straubes, surbates, surbeats
参考资料
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstruse”, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th版, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, 页10
- ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (编), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), p. 8
- ↑ Laurence Urdang (编), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], ISBN 0-394-43600-8), p. 7
延伸阅读
- abstruse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- abstruse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
