Baffling
Baffling adjective - Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.
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Esoteric and baffling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Esoteric" instead an adjective "Baffling".
Esoteric
Esoteric adjective - Difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand.
Usage example: metaphysics is such an esoteric subject that most people are content to leave it to the philosophers
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- deep and baffling
- deep and esoteric
- difficult and baffling
- difficult and esoteric
- abstruse and baffling
- abstruse and esoteric
- unfathomable and baffling
- unfathomable and esoteric
- obscure and baffling
- obscure and esoteric
- unclear and baffling
- unclear and esoteric
- cryptic and baffling
- cryptic and esoteric
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