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recondite

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rec·on·dite  (rkn-dt, r-kndt)
adj.
1. Not easily understood; abstruse. See Synonyms at ambiguous.
2. Concerned with or treating something abstruse or obscure: recondite scholarship.
3. Concealed; hidden.
[Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere, to put away : re-, re- + condere, to put together, preserve; see dh- in Indo-European roots.]
recon·ditely adv.
recon·diteness n.
recondite
Adjective
Formal
1. requiring special knowledge
2. dealing with abstruse or profound subjects [Latin reconditus hidden away]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.reconditerecondite - difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
abstruse, deep
esoteric - confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"
Translations
recondite [rɪˈkɔndaɪt] adj → recóndito
recondite [rɪˈkɔndaɪt] adj → abstrus(e) → obscur(e)
recondite [rɪˈkɔndaɪt] adj → obskur
recondite [rɪˈkɔndaɪt] adj → recondito/a


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But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at once to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its inmates.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Still further, like a human, he could and did perceive, and such perceptions did flower in his brain as concepts, certainly not so wide and deep and recondite as those of humans, but concepts nevertheless.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
Her vagaries soon ceased to puzzle me: the psychology of Jane Braithwaite was not recondite.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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