recondite
IPA: rˈɛkʌndaɪt
noun
- (rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
- (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.
adjective
- (of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
- Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
- Little known; esoteric, secret.
- (of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.
- (of writers) Deliberately employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references; intentionally obscure.
- (somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
- (botany, entomology, obsolete, rare, of a structure) Difficult to see, especially because it is hidden by another structure.
- (chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.
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Examples of "recondite" in Sentences
- It is an esoteric, recondite piece.
- This is no recondite area of research.
- These are not recondite sources in the context.
- This seems extremely complicated and recondite.
- Its arguments are woolly and its language recondite.
- The subject matter of the book is also fairly recondite.
- I have no problem with erudite and recondite discussions.
- Again reality isn't so recondite to others as it is to you.
- I thought it was something recondite in Hindi, for a moment.
- There is no recondite theory of science that requires years of study here.
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