The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ABSTRACT
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More clues leading to the result ABSTRACT
- Steal a Kandinsky painting, for example?
- Remove unrealistic summary
- Some in crew translated play? That’s not realistic
- Withdraw Jack’s pamphlet
- Remove unruly brats in turn
- Remove part of sailor’s digestive system?
- Treatise on muscles is hard to understand
- … ignoring the material in a pamphlet about nonsense
- Synopsis, hard to understand
- Summary is merely theoretical
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The straight part
We know that "not easily explained" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case not easily explained = abstract.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABSTRACT mean?
ABSTRACT noun- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To extract by means of distillation.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To create abstractions.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- Derived; extracted.
- Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Absent-minded.
- Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.