RECONDITE

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

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Etymology

Adjective

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

Noun

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.

Verb

recondite (third-person singular simple present recondites, present participle reconditing, simple past and past participle recondited)

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.

Anagrams

• decretion, red notice, tenrecoid

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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