adjective
- difficult to understand; dealing with very profound, difficult, or specialized subject matter
Usage: formal
Examples
- The professor’s recondite theories were difficult for undergraduate students to grasp.
- She specialized in recondite areas of medieval philosophy.
- The book’s recondite language made it challenging to read.
- His recondite knowledge of ancient texts impressed his colleagues.
- The recondite mathematical proof took hours to understand.
- Most readers found the recondite references too obscure to follow.