Recondite pertains to subjects that are profound, esoteric, or difficult, or knowledge that is little known.
Recondite refers to subjects that are profound or obscure, or knowledge that is little known.
| Front | recondite \REK-uhn-dahyt\ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Concerned with a profound, esoteric, or difficult subject. 2. Little known; obscure. [From Latin recondere (to hide), re- (back) + condere (to put together), from con- (with) + -dere (to put). Earliest documented use: 1619.] "With its fragmented words, multilingual puns and recondite allusions, the verse of Paul Celan hovers on the edge of untranslatability." - Mark M. Anderson; A Poet at War With His Language; The New York Times; Dec 31, 2000. "The sight of beautiful people making beautiful babies is a huge turn-on; but a recondite TV actress dying in a state of dementia, as Marty would say, 'not so much'." - Lynn Crosbie; Brangelina Babies; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Aug 5, 2008. |
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