| 单词 | recondite |
| 释义 | recondite (once / 8008 pages) adj It's rather difficult to penetrate the meaning of recondite. Fitting, because it's an adjective that basically means hard for the average mind to understand. If it's really hard to comprehend, then it's safe to say it's recondite. In the same family as "abstruse," "esoteric" and "totally deep, man," recondite is a very serious word that you could use to describe obscure philosophy books, high level mathematical theory, and the series finale of The Sopranos — you know, things that make your brain hurt. WORD FAMILYrecondite: reconditely, reconditeness USAGE EXAMPLESTo really appreciate the bog’s recondite wonders, however, you had to pause, look down and zoom in. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) This legal skirmish about one aspect of this one tentacle of the administrative state may seem recondite and trivial. Washington Post(Oct 14, 2016) His poetry, too, was at once recondite and scholarly and deeply embedded in his home soil. Economist(Sep 29, 2016) adj difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge some recondite problem in historiography Syn abstruse, deep esoteric confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle |
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