Re: elusive area?



the Omrud wrote:
littlebeam <cyrus.lan@xxxxxxxxx> had it:

I want to use an adjective to describe an area which is
under-specified because it is too abstract, and hardly
understandable.

e.g. Semantics and pragmatics are two ___ areas of natural language
processing.

Any good suggestions?

esoteric
complex
abstruse

related
cognate
overlapping
discrete
important
unimportant


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