Meaning

(of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
2. (somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
3. (rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
4. (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.
5. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.

Example Sentences

The Eye is somewhat recondit betweene its Orbite.

My recondite eye sits distent quaintly behind the flesh-hill, and looks as little as a tomtit's.

The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic.

How such a man should suppose himself unwell without reason, you may think strange. But I have found nothing the matter with him. He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint. I can't say. I only say, that at present I have not found it out.

...following the recondite brook, Sudden upon this scene I look, And light with unfamiliar face On chaste Diana's bathing-place

Silent calligraphy sounds that were like those of the sweet fluent water of a recondite stream.

[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.

Whether subsidence plunged the huge morass, / With vegetation, soil, and trees, en masse— / Or, if the flood had drown'd the boggy all, / As streaming torrents roar'd in surly bawl— / Let dons decide, on whom these points devolve; / Such recondites are truely hard to solve.

Word Forms

• more recondite
• most recondite
• recondites
• reconditing
• recondited

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