Usually means: Difficult to understand; deeply hidden.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. recondite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. recondite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recondite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recondite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recondite: Vocabulary.com
  6. recondite: Wordnik
  7. recondite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. recondite: Wiktionary
  9. recondite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. recondite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. recondite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Recondite, recondite: Dictionary.com
  13. recondite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Recondite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Recondite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. recondite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. recondite: Rhymezone
  18. Recondite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. recondite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. recondite: Free Dictionary
  21. recondite: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. recondite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. recondite: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recondite: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recondite: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recondite: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recondite: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recondite)

adjective:  (of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
adjective:  Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
adjective:  Little known; esoteric, secret.
adjective:  (of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.
adjective:  (of writers) Deliberately employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references; intentionally obscure.
adjective:  (somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
adjective:  (botany, entomology, obsolete, rare, of a structure) Difficult to see, especially because it is hidden by another structure.
adjective:  (chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.
noun:  (rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
noun:  (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.

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