retruse

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adjective

Thrust backward; retruding.

OriginLatin retrusus →
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Meanings

adjectiveretruse (comparative more retruse, superlative most retruse)

comparative more retruse · superlative most retruse

  1. Thrust backward; retruding.
  2. obsoleteabstruse

    1662, Henry More, Preface to A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings I have a sense of something in me while I thus speak, which I must confess is of so retruse a nature that I want a name for it, unless I should adventure to term it

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
incomprehensible

Origin

  1. Latinretrusus“concealed”
  2. Englishretruse

From Latin retrusus (“concealed”), past participle of retrudere.

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APA

retruse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retruse

MLA

“retruse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retruse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “retruse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retruse.

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