| abstruse | | |
| adj. | 1. abstruse, deep, recondite | difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography" |
| ~ esoteric | confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories" |
| mysterious | | |
| adj. | 1. cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying | of an obscure nature.; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" |
| ~ incomprehensible, inexplicable | incapable of being explained or accounted for.; "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons" |
| adj. | 2. mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secret | having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" |
| ~ esoteric | confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories" |
| questionable | | |
| adj. | 1. questionable | subject to question.; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin" |
| ~ contestable | capable of being contested. |
| ~ so-called, alleged, supposed | doubtful or suspect.; "these so-called experts are no help" |
| ~ apocryphal | being of questionable authenticity. |
| ~ debatable, problematic, problematical | open to doubt or debate.; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic" |
| ~ doubtful, dubitable, in question, dubious | open to doubt or suspicion.; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought" |
| ~ equivocal | open to question.; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son" |
| ~ suspect, fishy, suspicious, funny, shady | not as expected.; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" |
| ~ impugnable | subject to being discredited. |
| ~ self-styled, soi-disant | as claimed by and for yourself often without justification.; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind" |
| adj. | 2. confutable, confutative, questionable, refutable | able to be refuted. |
| ~ deniable | capable of being denied or contradicted. |
| describe | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. depict, describe, draw | give a description of.; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" |
| ~ represent | describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality.; "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel" |
| ~ delineate | describe in vivid detail. |
| ~ exposit, set forth, expound | state.; "set forth one's reasons" |
| ~ adumbrate, outline, sketch | describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of.; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" |
| v. (communication) | 2. account, describe, report | to give an account or representation of in words.; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| v. (contact) | 3. delineate, describe, draw, line, trace | make a mark or lines on a surface.; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" |
| ~ mark | make or leave a mark on.; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" |
| ~ construct | draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions.; "construct an equilateral triangle" |
| ~ inscribe | draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible. |
| ~ circumscribe | draw a line around.; "He drew a circle around the points" |
| ~ circumscribe | to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect. |
| ~ draw | engage in drawing.; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ write | mark or trace on a surface.; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name | identify as in botany or biology, for example. |
| ~ class, classify, sort out, assort, sort, separate | arrange or order by classes or categories.; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" |
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