recondite

[US]/ˈrekəndaɪt/
[UK]/ˈrekəndaɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. abstruse; obscure

Example Sentences

The professor's lectures are often recondite, requiring students to think deeply.

She enjoys reading recondite philosophical texts in her free time.

The novel is filled with recondite references to historical events.

The recondite nature of the topic made it challenging for beginners to understand.

He delved into the recondite world of quantum physics with enthusiasm.

The recondite language used in the legal document confused many people.

The recondite meaning of the poem required multiple readings to fully grasp.

The recondite theories presented in the research paper challenged traditional beliefs.

The recondite symbolism in the painting left viewers pondering its interpretation.

She found the recondite language of the technical manual frustrating to understand.

Real-world Examples

The savor was slender, elusive, and recondite, a ghostly bouquet that haunted rather than lived on the tongue.

Source: The Disappearing Horizon

He told her recondite incidents of his own life on purpose to arouse some spark of it, but to no avail.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

For it is a far greater exercise of the potency of an idea to exorcise the obvious than to introduce into men's common notions the recondite and the remote.

Source: Employment, Interest, and General Theory of Money (Part II)

With her near-sightedness, and those tremulous fingers of hers, at once inflexible and delicate, she could not be a seamstress; although her sampler, of fifty years gone by, exhibited some of the most recondite specimens of ornamental needlework.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 1)

We hear from mathematicians that bees have practically solved a recondite problem, and have made their cells of the proper shape to hold the greatest possible amount of honey, with the least possible consumption of precious wax in their construction.

Source: On the Origin of Species

By various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent waxy substance. None of it yielded gold, of course, but a strange and interesting thing did happen. After a time, the substance began to glow.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

(Then Bedlam creeps screaming out of the bottles: TANA plunges into the recondite mazes of the train song, the plaintive " tootle toot-toot" blending its melancholy cadences with the " Poor Butter-fly (tink-atink), by the blossoms wait-ing" of the phonograph.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

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