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
12 March 2025
(noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
