abstruse, deep, recondite
(adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; “the professor’s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them”; “a deep metaphysical theory”; “some recondite problem in historiography”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
recondite (comparative more recondite, superlative most recondite)
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.
Synonym: retiring
recondite (plural recondites)
(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.
recondite (third-person singular simple present recondites, present participle reconditing, simple past and past participle recondited)
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.
• decretion, red notice, tenrecoid
Source: Wiktionary
Rec"on*dite (rk"n*dt or r*kn"dt;277), a. Etym: [L. reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. See Abscond.]
1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. "Recondite learning." Bp. Horsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
