RECONDITE Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

recondite

adjective

ˈre-kən-ˌdīt

Definition of recondite

as in esoteric

difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand geochemistry is a recondite subject

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Recent Examples of recondite This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics. — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025 Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024 In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them. — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024 Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats. — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for recondite

Recent Examples of Synonyms for recondite

Adjective

Baseball is a sport that thrives on statistics, no matter how esoteric, but there appears to be no record of a professional baseball player previously wearing a mechanical watch during a game.

— Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The rereleased games are fascinatingly esoteric, too, including the GBC versions of Croc, Croc 2, Earthworm Jim, and the Japan-only GB shmup, Chikyu Kaiho Gun Zas.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

There’s maybe something profound happening onstage, a celebration of — not to get too corny — life itself, between you and the fans.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2026
But Tanaka’s lab is already considering a much weirder and potentially more profound implication.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026