Difference between Deep and Abstruse

DEEP vs ABSTRUSE: NOUN

Of an obscure nature
Extending far downward below a surface.
Extending far inward from an outer surface.
Extending far backward from front to rear.
Extending far from side to side from a center.
Far distant down or in.
Coming from or penetrating to a depth.
Located or taking place near the outer boundaries of the area of play.
Extending a specific distance in a given direction.
(of darkness) very intense
Far distant in time or space.
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
Very distant in time or space
Strong; intense
Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
Extending relatively far inward
Of a mysterious or obscure nature.
With head or back bent low
Extreme
Marked by depth of thinking
Relatively thick from top to bottom
Difficult to penetrate or understand; recondite.
Having a sufficient number of capable reserve players.
Large in quantity or size; big.
Covered or surrounded to a designated degree. Often used in combination.
Large in quantity or size
Exhibiting great cunning or craft.
Of a grave or extreme nature.
Very absorbed or involved.
Very learned or intellectual; wise.
Rich and intense in shade. Used of a color.
Profound in quality or feeling.
Low in pitch; resonant.

Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite.
Concealed or hidden out of the way.
Difficult to understand; recondite.
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

Deeply.
To become deep; deepen.
To go deep; sink.
Having considerable or great extension downward, or in a direction viewed as analogous with downward.
As measured from the point of view: extending far above; lofty: as, a deep sky.
As measured from without inward: extending or entering far within; situated far within or toward the center.
As measured from the front backward: long: as, a deep house; a deep lot.
Having (a certain) extension as measured from the surface downward or from the front backward: as, a mine 1,000 feet deep; a case 12 inches long and 3 inches deep; a house 40 feet deep; a file of soldiers six deep.
Immersed; absorbed; engrossed; wholly occupied: as,deep in figures.
Closely involved or implicated.
Hard to get to the bottom or foundation of; difficult to penetrate or understand; not easily fathomed; profound; abstruse.
Sagacious; penetrating; profound: as, a man of deep insight.
Artful; contriving; plotting; insidious; designing: as, he is a deep schemer.
Grave in sound; low in pitch: as, the deep tones of an organ.
To a great depth; far down or in
Intense or extreme
To a great depth;far down
Difficult to penetrate
Intense
Strong
Sometimes used in combination
Affecting one deeply
Relatively deep or strong
To a great distance
(of darkness) densely dark
(idiom) (in deep water) In difficulty.
(idiom) (deep down) At bottom; basically.

Remote from comprehension; difficult to be apprehended or understood; profound; occult; esoteric: opposed to obvious.
Withdrawn from view; out of the way; concealed.
Difficult to penetrate

Recondite, Low, Big, Large, Heavy, Intense, Rich, Unfathomed, Unplumbed, Broad, Profound, Thick, Bottomless, Abyssal, Wide

Cryptic, Comprehensible, Incomprehensible, Indecipherable, Banal, Metaphysical, Obscure, Prosaic, Inscrutable, Obtuse, Arcane, Cryptographs, Deep, Recondite, Esoteric

Recondite, Low, Big, Large, Heavy, Intense, Rich, Unfathomed, Unplumbed, Broad, Profound, Thick, Bottomless, Abyssal, Wide

Ambiguous, Cryptic, Comprehensible, Incomprehensible, Indecipherable, Banal, Metaphysical, Obscure, Prosaic, Inscrutable, Obtuse, Arcane, Deep, Recondite, Esoteric

From Deep To Shallow For now, there is a gradual movement of bass from deep water to shallow.
The Deep Blue essential oil blend is the origin of the Deep Blue product line.
Soil type is Chalkas, Red sandy soils, Dubbas, Deep Red loamy soils, Very deep black cotton soils.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
Some other designations include: Prooflike, Deep Cameo, Deep Mirror Prooflike.
He took a deep breath and let out a deep sigh.
Ritual cannot erase these deep scars, but it can provide, if only slightly, some comfort for the deep loss and anguish.
Clayton County is a deep, deep blue district, but have always kind of lagged in voter turnout for statewide results.
Deep breathing and mindfulness exercises can help put you in a deep sleep.
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

Pretty abstruse legalese, though, since it goes back such a long way.
Samuel Johnson because of the highly intellectual and often abstruse imagery involved.
SYN: Mental, intellectual, abstract, Ideal, conceptional, subjective, relational, notional, abstruse, psychical.
For by simple things you arrive at the abstruse.
So deep abstruse he has not mastered it.
It is far too abstruse for description here.
Great these gatherings the abstruse all around them.
Some puzzles employ abstruse definitions, puns, and anagrams.
Softw engineers put off by more abstruse notations.
Virtue ethics is not an abstruse ethical theory.