recondite

adj.

1. Not easily understood; abstruse. See synonyms at ambiguous.
2. Concerned with or treating something abstruse or obscure: recondite scholarship.
3. Concealed; hidden.

[Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere, to put away : re-, re- + condere, to put together, preserve.]

reconditely rec'on·dite'ly adv.
reconditeness rec'on·dite'ness n.

George F. Will, a conservative columnist, opined in The Washington Post that it was hardly news that "if an inner city is inundated, the victims will be disproportionately minorities," and went on to enumerate

"three not-at-all recondite rules for avoiding poverty: graduate from high school, don't have a baby until you are married, don't marry while you are a teenager. Among people who obey those rules, poverty is minimal. "

Link: The type of thinking that Katrina didn't sweep away

Posted September 14, 2005.

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adjective

Beyond the understanding of an average mind: abstruse, deep, esoteric, profound. Slang heavy. See easy/hard, surface/depth.

adj

Definition: mysterious, obscure
Antonyms: familiar, obvious, plain, simple, straightforward

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concealed; deep; having to do with something obscure

IN BRIEF: Not easily understood. Also: Hidden from sight.

I would like to learn more about more unusual and recondite phenomena.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - vanskeligt tilgængelig, dunkel

Nederlands (Dutch)
verborgen, ontoegankelijk, diepzinnig, niet algemeen bekend

Français (French)
adj. - abstrus (sout)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - abstrus

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - απόκρυφος, μυστηριώδης, σκοτεινός, βαθύς

Italiano (Italian)
recondito

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - recôndito

Русский (Russian)
заумный, тайный, малоизвестный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - recóndito

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - svårfattlig, förborgad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
深奥的, 隐藏的, 难解的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 深奧的, 隱藏的, 難解的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 심오한, 난해한, 숨은

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 深遠な, 難解な, 見えない, 秘められた

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عويص, مبهم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עמוק, נסתר, ליודעי חן, קשה להבנה, לא ברור‬

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