recondite

[ UK /ɹˌiːkəndˈa‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/ ]

ADJECTIVE

difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
a deep metaphysical theory
the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
some recondite problem in historiography

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How To Use recondite In A Sentence

Hellenistic literature displayed (sometimes in one and the same work) a mandarin artificiality full of recondite, learned allusions and a lively, realistic interest in everyday life.
This study shows that throughout his life, Guru Nanak did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts.
To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. The Eye of Osiris
His accompanying text may not answer every question on this recondite subject.
They must have found their teacher too sophisticated, too full of recondite allusions for them to follow.
He is very recondite in his images, and you are sometimes reminded of one storming in English at a Hindoo -- it is pointless fury, boltless thunder. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2
the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
The recondite topic of usury allowed Noonan to consider the problem of doctrinal development at greater length.
It is a mine of interesting and recondite information, written by the leading authorities in their fields.
Yet the most recondite and potentially entertaining proposal in Scotland last week crept in unnoticed at the back door while everyone was trying to unravel Salmond's statutory orgy. Can we have a Stop Making Stupid Bills bill? | Kevin McKenna

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