recondite
- 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.
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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
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.
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
- requiring special knowledge to be understood; abstruse
- dealing with abstruse or profound subjects
Word Origin for recondite
Word Origin and History for recondite
1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Old French recondit, from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up," from re- "away, back" (see re-) + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" (see con-) + -dere "to put, place," comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1650s; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.