recondite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
    deep; abstruse.
    • the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
    • a deep metaphysical theory
    • some recondite problem in historiography

WordNet

Rec"on*dite adjective
Etymology
L. reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. See Abscond.
Definitions
  1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
  2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. "Recondite learning." Bp. Horsley.

Webster 1913