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9-letter words (1 found)

RECONDITE,

8-letter words (7 found)

CENTRODE,CENTROID,DOCTRINE,ERECTION,NEOTERIC,ORIENTED,RECOINED,

7-letter words (21 found)

CEDRINE,CENTRED,CODEINE,COINTER,CORDITE,COTERIE,CREDENT,CTENOID,DEONTIC,ENCODER,ENCORED,ENTERIC,ENTICED,ENTICER,ERODENT,NOTICED,NOTICER,ORDINEE,RECITED,RECTION,TIERCED,

6-letter words (89 found)

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5-letter words (95 found)

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4-letter words (142 found)

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3-letter words (71 found)

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2-letter words (23 found)

DE,DI,DO,ED,EE,EN,ER,ET,ID,IN,IO,IT,NE,NO,OD,OE,OI,ON,OR,RE,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 450 words from recondite according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of recondite

recondite

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Latin reconditus (“concealed, hidden; difficult to understand, unintelligible; shy, withdrawn”), perfect passive participle of recondō (“to conceal, hide; to put away; to re-establish, put back”) + -tus (suffix forming adjectives having the sense ‘provided with’). Recondō is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + condō (“to conceal, hide; to put away, store; to put together; to build, establish; to fashion, form”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, make; to place, put”)). The English word is cognate with Catalan recòndit (“hidden; private”), Italian recondito (“hidden, recondite”), Middle French recondit (“hidden; secret”), Portuguese recôndito (“hidden, secluded; isolated, remote”), Spanish recóndito (“hidden, recondite”).

The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

The verb is derived from Latin recondere, the present active infinitive of recondō; see above.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/, /ɹɪˈkɒndaɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkənˌdaɪt/, /ɹəˈkɑnˌdaɪt/, /ɹiˈkɑnˌdaɪt/
  • Hyphenation: re‧cond‧ite

Adjective

recondite (comparative more recondite, superlative most recondite)

  1. (of areas of discussion or research) Difficult, obscure.
    1. Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.
    2. Little known; esoteric, secret.
    3. (of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.
    4. (of writers) Deliberately employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references; intentionally obscure.
      • 2004 Autumn, American Scholar, 129
        The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.
  2. (somewhat archaic) Hidden or removed from view.
    1. (botany, entomology, obsolete, rare, of a structure) Difficult to see, especially because it is hidden by another structure.
    2. (chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.
      Synonym: retiring

Derived terms

  • reconditely
  • reconditeness

Translations

Noun

recondite (plural recondites)

  1. (rare) A recondite (hidden or obscure) person or thing.
  2. (rare) A scholar or other person who is recondite, that is, who has mastery over his or her field, including its esoteric minutiae.

Verb

recondite (third-person singular simple present recondites, present participle reconditing, simple past and past participle recondited)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To conceal, cover up, hide.

References

Further reading

  • “recondite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • centeroid, decretion, red notice, tenrecoid

Italian

Adjective

recondite

  1. feminine plural of recondito

Anagrams

  • centroide, condirete, decretino, intercedo

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈkon.di.te/, [rɛˈkɔn̪d̪ɪt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈkon.di.te/, [reˈkɔn̪d̪it̪e]

Verb

recondite

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of recondō

Source: wiktionary.org