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мудрёный — meaning in English

mudryonyy

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English meaning

  • abstruse adj Hard to understand, especially because it deals with complicated ideas.
  • labyrinthine adj Shaped like a maze.
  • recondite adj Hard to understand and not widely known.
  • sophisticated adj Having a lot of worldly experience and refined taste; cultured and knowledgeable.

Senses

мудрёный is used for these senses in English:

  • abstruse Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure. [from mid 16th c.]
  • inkhorn (used attributively, pejorative, of vocabulary) Something or someone pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
  • labyrinthine (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
  • recondite Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
  • sophisticated Complicated, especially of complex technology.

abstruse — full definition

  1. adj Hard to understand, especially because it deals with complicated ideas.
  2. adj (dated) Kept hidden or secret.

labyrinthine — full definition

  1. adj Shaped like a maze.
  2. adj (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth inside the ear.
  3. adj Very complicated and difficult to follow or understand.
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