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Antonyms for recondite

Grammar : Adj
Spell : rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt

Definition of recondite

Origin :
  • 1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Old French recondit, from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up," from re- "away, back" (see re-) + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" (see con-) + -dere "to put, place," comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1650s; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.
  • adj mysterious, obscure
Example sentences :
  • Yet there is no need to apply any recondite or novel machinery.
  • Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
  • In the university that life is, she had acquired encyclopedias of recondite learning.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • In itself, it has no recondite meaning, it answers fully its own sweet purpose.
  • Extract from : « Spare Hours » by John Brown
  • If he had recondite and "artistic" feelings, he indulged them also without shame.
  • Extract from : « Visions and Revisions » by John Cowper Powys
  • And we have legends in recondite books of the manner of the King's death.
  • Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Recondite meanings of things are suggested to you, and words—what words they are!
  • Extract from : « Letters of Pliny » by Pliny
  • It is, if properly considered, as recondite a science as mathematics.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850 » by Various
  • It has been called "a recondite treatise on the subject of railway times."
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine » by Various
  • Not the most recondite and secret part of our house had escaped their search.
  • Extract from : « A Legend of Reading Abbey » by Charles MacFarlane
  • No question was too sacred, grave, or recondite for this tribunal.
  • Extract from : « Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 1 (of 20) » by Charles Sumner

Synonyms for recondite

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