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recondite

/rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt/US // ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt //UK // (rɪˈkɒndaɪt, ˈrɛkənˌdaɪt) //

深奥的,复杂的,深奥难懂,深奥难懂的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
    • : beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
    • : little known; obscure: a recondite fact.

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Examples

  • How else to explain the popularity of a novel so free of plot, so obsessed with existential rumination and recondite philosophy?

  • Classical allusions, poetical turns of phrase, antique diction, recondite words.

  • Fortunately, the considerations which are necessary are not recondite, and all the facts are of an extremely picturesque nature.

  • But to determine what these propositions are, is the opus magnum of the more recondite mental philosophy.

  • Such superstitions as these last must be the result of study; they are too recondite for natural or spontaneous growth.

  • The scheme of the pronouns is very complete, and provides for nearly all the recondite distinctions of person.

  • To develop truths so recondite there would be needed a knowledge of nature much greater than that which we have.