recondite
/ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a recondite tractate on alchemy"
- "But I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron to these rauishing (but impouerishing) studies, by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science [astronomy] shall at length be manifested."
- "Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects."
- "[T]here was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit, a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large poſſeſſion of Divine and Humane Lawes."
- "[T]he Apoſtle Paul had taken up many things out of theſe Recondite and Apocryphal Writings."
- "[Of Southey] I look in vain for any writer, who has conveyed so much information, from so many and such recondite sources, with so many just and original reflections, in a style so lively and poignant, yet so uniformly classical and perspicuous; […]"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/
- British English: /ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more recondite (comparative)
most recondite (superlative)
recondites (plural)
recondites (present, singular)
reconditing (participle, present)
recondited (participle, past)
recondited (past)