Associations to the word «Recondite»

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

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".