Associations to the word «Recondite»
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Wiktionary
RECONDITE, adjective. (of areas of study and literature) Difficult, obscure; particularly:
RECONDITE, adjective. Abstruse, profound, difficult to grasp
RECONDITE, adjective. Esoteric, little known; secret
RECONDITE, adjective. (of writers) Deliberately obscure; employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references
RECONDITE, adjective. (of scholars) Learnèd, having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiæ
RECONDITE, adjective. (as a general term, somewhat entomology) (obscure) (rare archaic ; as a term in botany and) Hidden or removed from view
RECONDITE, adjective. (zoology) (rare) Shy, avoiding notice (particularly human notice)
RECONDITE, verb. (obscure) (rare) (transitive) to hide, cover up, conceal
Dictionary definition
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".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.