abstrusive UK /əbˈstɹuː.sɪv/US /æbˈstɹu.sɪv/ adjective1 •(rare) Of abstruse quality....and I have given the reader such a dose of mathematics, psychology, and all that is abstrusive, that I fear that he may already have left me,... — 1996 formsmore abstrusive · most abstrusive