About The Word Recondite
Learn about the word Recondite to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Recondite definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Recondite
| Recondite Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Recondite?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Recondite: abstruse | deep | esoteric Related Terms | Find terms related to Recondite: See Also | Recondite In Webster's Dictionary \Rec"on*dite\ (r?k"?n*d?t or r?*k?n"d?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.
2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as,
recondite studies. ``Recondite learning.'' --Bp. Horsley.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Unsalaried ‐ not paying a salary; "an uncompensated…
- Nonalignment ‐ people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or…
- Lespedeza sericea ‐ perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially…
- Xenogenesis ‐ the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle…
- Overspecialize ‐ become overly specialized; "She overspecialized when she concentrated…
- Aythya americana ‐ North American diving duck with a gray-and-black body and reddish-brown…
- Magnetic moment ‐ the torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in…
- Viviparous ‐ (zoology) producing living young…
- Tenpin bowling ‐ bowling down an alley at a target of ten…
- Charadrius morinellus ‐ rare plover of upland areas…