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RECONDITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does recondite mean?
• RECONDITE (adjective)
The adjective RECONDITE has 1 sense:
1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Familiarity information: RECONDITE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Synonyms:
Context example:
some recondite problem in historiography
Similar:
esoteric (confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)
Derivation:
reconditeness (the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand)
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