incondite

/ɪnˈkɒndɪt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).

adj

"I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases."
"I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already."
"[T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures,[…]."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin conditus Latin inconditusbor. English incondite Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

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How do you pronounce incondite?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/.

What does incondite mean?

Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).

Where does incondite come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin conditus Latin inconditusbor. English incondite Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

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