retruse

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

retruse (comparative more retruse, superlative most retruse)

1. Thrust backward; retruding.
2. (obsolete) abstruse
   • 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “retruse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Reuters, Rueters, ureters

Latin

Participle

retrūse

1. vocative masculine singular of retrūsus