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.
little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
Origin of recondite
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abstruse, academic, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, esoteric, hard, heavy, hermetic, hidden, involved, mystic, mystical, occult, pedantic, profoundExamples from the Web for recondite
Contemporary Examples of recondite
Historical Examples of recondite
Yet there is no need to apply any recondite or novel machinery.
The MemorabiliaXenophon
In the university that life is, she had acquired encyclopedias of recondite learning.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
In itself, it has no recondite meaning, it answers fully its own sweet purpose.
Spare HoursJohn Brown
If he had recondite and "artistic" feelings, he indulged them also without shame.
Visions and RevisionsJohn Cowper Powys
And we have legends in recondite books of the manner of the King's death.
BurlesquesWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
recondite
adjective
Word Origin for recondite
C17: from Latin reconditus hidden away, from re- + condere to conceal
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