recondite

1. 1.

   difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

   “the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them”

   “a deep metaphysical theory”

   “some recondite problem in historiography”

   Synonymsabstrusedeep

   Similaresoteric

Questions about recondite

What does recondite mean?

recondite means "difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge".

How many syllables are in recondite?

recondite has 3 syllables: rec-on-dite. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/.

What is another word for recondite?

Close synonyms include abstruse, deep. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recondite a common word?

recondite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recondite?

8 words rhyme with recondite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.