Tuesday word: Recondite
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Recondite (adjective)
rec·on·dite [rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt]
adjective
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
Other Words From
rec on·dite ly adverb
rec on·dite ness noun
un·rec on·dite adjective
See synonyms for Recondite on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
2. deep.
3. mysterious, occult, secret.
Antonyms
2. exoteric.
3. well-known.
Origin: 1640–50; earlier recondit < Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (originally past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond ( ere ) to bring together ( con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite
Recent Examples on the Web
In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
But a few key paragraphs within the 88-page filing mention the exclusion and social shaming of non-iPhone users confined inside green chat bubbles, distinguishing this case from some of the more recondite explanations of tech market competition in recent years.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024
There are familiar words describing nature particular to the U.S., like prairie, skunk, coyote and chipmunk, but also more recondite ones, like catawba (a species of grape and type of sparkling wine), catawampous (fierce, destructive) and cottondom (the region in which cotton is grown).
—Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Other efforts required more recondite statistical analysis.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
Recondite (adjective)
rec·on·dite [rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt]
adjective
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
Other Words From
rec on·dite ly adverb
rec on·dite ness noun
un·rec on·dite adjective
See synonyms for Recondite on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
2. deep.
3. mysterious, occult, secret.
Antonyms
2. exoteric.
3. well-known.
Origin: 1640–50; earlier recondit < Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (originally past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond ( ere ) to bring together ( con- con- + -dere to put) + -itus -ite
Recent Examples on the Web
In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
But a few key paragraphs within the 88-page filing mention the exclusion and social shaming of non-iPhone users confined inside green chat bubbles, distinguishing this case from some of the more recondite explanations of tech market competition in recent years.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024
There are familiar words describing nature particular to the U.S., like prairie, skunk, coyote and chipmunk, but also more recondite ones, like catawba (a species of grape and type of sparkling wine), catawampous (fierce, destructive) and cottondom (the region in which cotton is grown).
—Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Other efforts required more recondite statistical analysis.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
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Date: 2024-08-14 02:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-08-27 12:00 am (UTC)Seen it in a fanfic in recent months:
(the first character, a professor, is asking a teenaged student about a document)
"Too recondite, was it?"
"Huh?"
"It used too many big words?"
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Date: 2024-08-27 12:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-08-27 01:21 am (UTC)