recondite
11recondite — [[t]rɪkɒ̱ndaɪt, re̱kən [/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Recondite areas of knowledge or learning are difficult to understand, and not many people know about them. [FORMAL] Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject matter.… …
12recondite — rec•on•dite [[t]ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt[/t]] adj. 1) pertaining to or dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise[/ex] 2) known or understood by relatively few; esoteric; arcane 3) obscure • Etymology …
13recondite — /rəˈkɒndaɪt / (say ruh konduyt), /ˈrɛkəndaɪt / (say rekuhnduyt) adjective 1. dealing with abstruse or profound matters: a recondite treatise. 2. removed from ordinary knowledge or understanding; abstruse; profound: recondite principles. 3. little …
14recondite — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. mysterious, obscure, secret, abstruse, profound, esoteric, cryptic. See concealment. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [REK un DITE] beyond the average person s understanding,… …
15recondite — rec|on|dite [ˈrekəndaıt, rıˈkɔn US ˈrekən , rıˈka:n ] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: reconditus, past participle of recondere to hide ] formal recondite facts or subjects are not known about or understood by many people = ↑obscure …
16recondite — [17] Recondite ‘obscure, abstruse’ means etymologically ‘hidden’. It comes from reconditus, the past participle of Latin recondere ‘hide’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘again’ and condere ‘put away, store’ (ultimate source… …
17recondite — adjective (only before noun) formal recondite information, knowledge etc is not known about or understood by many people …
18recondite — adjective the recondite realms of Semitic philology Syn: obscure, abstruse, arcane, esoteric, recherché, profound, difficult, complex, complicated, involved; incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, cryptic, opaque See note at …
19recondite — [17] Recondite ‘obscure, abstruse’ means etymologically ‘hidden’. It comes from reconditus, the past participle of Latin recondere ‘hide’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘again’ and condere ‘put away, store’ (ultimate source… …
20recondite knowledge — index secret Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
