recondite

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

[edit] English

From Latin reconditus (“hidden, concealed”), past participle adjective of recondo (“to put back, re-establish; to hide away”).

recondite (comparative more recondite, superlative most recondite)

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse.

What was the recondite cause of Ryulong being uncalled for?
Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching.

My philosophy professor believes she is in the field of recondite studies.
Difficult to understand; known only by experts.
- Coster-Mullen spent the next ten years of his life mastering a body of recondite technical data. — Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs, David Samuels December, The New Yorker, 15, 2008 [1]
Of a person: highly talented, a master of a field.
- Our musician [J.S. Bach] rapidly became known far and wide throughout the musical centres of Germany as a learned and recondite composer… – The Great German Composers, George T. Ferris, 1891

recondite f.

recondite