recondite
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ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn adjective
1.
dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2.
beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3.
little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
Origin:
1640–50; earlier recondit < Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (orig. past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond(ere) to bring together (con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite2
1640–50; earlier recondit < Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (orig. past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond(ere) to bring together (con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite2
Related forms
rec·on·dite·ly, adverb
rec·on·dite·ness, noun
un·rec·on·dite, adjective
Synonyms
2. deep. 3. mysterious, occult, secret.
2. deep. 3. mysterious, occult, secret.
Antonyms
2. exoteric. 3. well-known.
2. exoteric. 3. well-known.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | requiring special knowledge to be understood; abstruse |
| 2. | dealing with abstruse or profound subjects |
| [C17: from Latin reconditus hidden away, from | |
| re'conditely | |
| —adv | |
| re'conditeness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
recondite
1649, "removed or hidden from view," from L. reconditus, pp. of recondere "store away," from re- "away, back" + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" + -dere "to put, place." Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1652; of writers or sources, "obscure,"
it is recorded from 1817.
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Example sentences
Coster-Mullen spent the next ten years of his life mastering a body of recondite technical data.
It sometimes seems that there is no talent so recondite that you cannot make a living out of it.
There seems to be no recondite meaning in the piece.
But the book's real flaw is not its loving inflation of somewhat recondite events but its propelling argument.
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