incondite
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin inconditus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
incondite
- Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).
- I wish I might digress and tell you more... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already. - Nabokov's Lolita (1955)
- Rough, unrefined.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.4:
- the second [symptom] is falso cogitata loqui, to talk to themselves, or to use inarticulate, incondite voices, speeches, obsolete gestures [...].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.4:
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
incondite
- vocative masculine singular of inconditus