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
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- deep and esoteric
- deep and puzzling
- difficult and esoteric
- difficult and puzzling
- abstruse and esoteric
- abstruse and puzzling
- unfathomable and esoteric
- unfathomable and puzzling
- obscure and esoteric
- obscure and puzzling
- unclear and esoteric
- unclear and puzzling
- ambiguous and esoteric
- ambiguous and puzzling
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Puzzling and Esoteric. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/esoteric/puzzling
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