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recondite

[ rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt ]

adjective

  1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter:

    a recondite treatise.

  2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric:

    recondite principles.

    Synonyms: deep

    Antonyms: exoteric

  3. little known; obscure:

    a recondite fact.

    Synonyms: secret, occult, mysterious

    Antonyms: well-known



recondite

/ rɪˈkɒndaɪt; ˈrɛkənˌdaɪt /

adjective

  1. requiring special knowledge to be understood; abstruse
  2. dealing with abstruse or profound subjects
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • reˈconditeness, noun
  • reˈconditely, adverb
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Other Words From

  • recon·ditely adverb
  • recon·diteness noun
  • un·recon·dite adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of recondite1

1640–50; earlier recondit < Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (originally past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond ( ere ) to bring together ( con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of recondite1

C17: from Latin reconditus hidden away, from re- + condere to conceal
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Example Sentences

How else to explain the popularity of a novel so free of plot, so obsessed with existential rumination and recondite philosophy?

Classical allusions, poetical turns of phrase, antique diction, recondite words.

Fortunately, the considerations which are necessary are not recondite, and all the facts are of an extremely picturesque nature.

But to determine what these propositions are, is the opus magnum of the more recondite mental philosophy.

Such superstitions as these last must be the result of study; they are too recondite for natural or spontaneous growth.

The scheme of the pronouns is very complete, and provides for nearly all the recondite distinctions of person.

To develop truths so recondite there would be needed a knowledge of nature much greater than that which we have.

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