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recondite

[ UK /ɹˌiːkəndˈa‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
    a deep metaphysical theory
    the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
    some recondite problem in historiography

How To Use recondite In A Sentence

  • “Myers,” presumably speaking through the medium, produced a stream of poetic, recondite associations from the word Lethe that meant nothing to the medium or the experimenter. Experiencing the Next World Now
  • Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. Languagehat.com
  • Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
  • Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
  • Frisic, or northern Dutch, and the Germanic, in all its recondite phases, with the ancient Gothic, and its cognates, taking in very wide accessions from the Latin, the Gallic, and other languages of southern Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
  • some recondite problem in historiography
  • It does exhibit sedulous authorial research and reveling in recondite lore - some of it in various untranslated Afghan languages, though these passages are hardly more annoying than those in English.
  • Derrida burst on to the world stage in the 1960s with his recondite theory known as deconstruction.
  • It's never helped me with the capital of Tajikistan or the definition of "recondite," but apparently it's got the goods on my hang-ups. Printing: Listen To My Body? I Don't Think So
  • The influence of these open-ended images and other recondite forms of cerebral play on courts such as Urbino's has been discussed by Luciano Cheles, among others (Studiolo of Urbino, 82 – 87), and continues into the cinquecento. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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