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

Solid-state physics in its early days was just an esoteric exercise to satisfy curiosity.

— Mattanjah de Vries, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Christie’s confidence that the canvas will hit its mark is based on a far more esoteric criterion, as Max Carter, the house’s global chair of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, told Artnet News.

— News Desk, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

A student victory would be a profound political shift in the Balkan country of some 6 million people, reminiscent of the defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orban in April.

— Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026
The shifts could have profound implications for the more than $5 trillion in assets managed by family offices.

— Robert Frank, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026