'Recondite' definitions:

Definition of 'recondite'

From: WordNet
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" [syn: abstruse, deep, recondite]

Definition of 'Recondite'

From: GCIDE
  • Recondite \Rec"on*dite\ (r[e^]k"[o^]n*d[imac]t or r[-e]k[o^]n"d[i^]t; 277), a. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. "Recondite learning." --Bp. Horsley. [1913 Webster]

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