retruse
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 7
Definition of retruse
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- Thrust backward; retruding.
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adj
- Thrust backward; retruding.
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(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”
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Etymology
From Latin retrusus (“concealed”), past participle of retrudere.
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