Definitions for recondite

recondite rec·on·dite

Spelling: [rek-uh n-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt]
IPA: /ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt/

Recondite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 509 anagrams from letters in recondite (cdeeinort).

Definitions for recondite

adjective

  1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter:
  2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric:
  3. little known; obscure:

Origin of recondite

1640-50; earlier recondit Latin reconditus recondite, hidden (orig. past participle of recondere to hide), equivalent to re- re- + cond(ere) to bring together (con-

Examples for recondite

Classical allusions, poetical turns of phrase, antique diction, recondite words.

In the university that life is, she had acquired encyclopedias of recondite learning.

In itself, it has no recondite meaning, it answers fully its own sweet purpose.

How else to explain the popularity of a novel so free of plot, so obsessed with existential rumination and recondite philosophy?

And we have legends in recondite books of the manner of the King's death.

Yet there is no need to apply any recondite or novel machinery.

It is, if properly considered, as recondite a science as mathematics.

It has been called "a recondite treatise on the subject of railway times."

recondite meanings of things are suggested to you, and words—what words they are!

If he had recondite and "artistic" feelings, he indulged them also without shame.

Word Value for recondite
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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