difficult to understand

Jamie D.
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  1. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  2. recondite
    difficult to understand
  3. bemused
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  4. bemuse
    cause to be confused emotionally
  5. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  6. enigmatic
    not clear to the understanding
  7. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  8. obscure
    not clearly understood or expressed
  9. opaque
    not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
  10. paradoxical
    seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
  11. perplexing
    lacking clarity of meaning
Created on Fri Nov 18 08:31:12 EST 2011

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