abstruse
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]借自法語 abstrus[1]或拉丁語 abstrūsus (“隱藏的”)，abstrūdō (“隱藏，推開”) 的完成過去分詞[2]，源自ab, abs (“離開”) + trūdō (“推”)。[3]和德語 abstrus 同源。
發音
[编辑]形容詞
[编辑]abstruse (比較級 abstruser 或 more abstruse，最高級 abstrusest 或 most abstruse)
近義詞
[编辑]- (隱藏的)： clandestine, secret, surreptitious
- (難懂的)： esoteric, obscure, recondite
派生詞彙
[编辑]異序詞
[编辑]參考資料
[编辑]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstruse”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
- ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (編), 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 (編), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], ISBN 0-394-43600-8), p. 7
延伸閱讀
[编辑]- “abstruse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “abstruse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.