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recondite
[ rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt ]
adjective
- dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter:
a recondite treatise.
- beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric:
recondite principles.
Synonyms: deep
Antonyms: exoteric
- little known; obscure:
a recondite fact.
Synonyms: secret, occult, mysterious
Antonyms: well-known
recondite
/ rɪˈkɒndaɪt; ˈrɛkənˌdaɪt /
adjective
- requiring special knowledge to be understood; abstruse
- dealing with abstruse or profound subjects
Derived Forms
- reˈconditeness, noun
- reˈconditely, adverb
Other Words From
- recon·ditely adverb
- recon·diteness noun
- un·recon·dite adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of recondite1
Word History and Origins
Origin of recondite1
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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