recondite

Speech parts

1. recondite - Noun

2. recondite - Adjective

3. recondite - Verb

4. recondite - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

deep abstruse mystic hermetic gordian recherche complex difficult private involved heavy alexandrian hard dark secret
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Antonyms

royal elementary simple exoteric easy obvious
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Phrases with the word

recondite webworm moth

Anagrams

decretion centeroid tenrecoid

Examples

One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me. Joan Didion

They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler. Washington Irving

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite. Arthur Quiller-Couch

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. Theodor Adorno

Interpreting a recondite beauty and bliss In colour's hieroglyphs of mystic sense, It wrote the lines of a significant myth Telling of a greatness of spiritual dawns, A brilliant code penned with the sky for page. Sri Aurobindo

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton

Close letter words and terms

recondemnation recondensation recondense recondite poetry recondite webworm moth reconditely