English Dictionary

recondite

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt/

形容詞

分野 of属格 前置詞句 古語 廃用 前置詞句 稀用

Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound. / Little known; esoteric, secret. / (of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.

日本語の意味

理解しにくい、捉えにくい、難解な / あまり知られていない、秘められた、隠された / （学者が持つ意味で）専門分野の細部にまで精通した、博識な

The professor's lecture on quantum field theory was so recondite that many students left the room bewildered.

その教授の量子場理論の講義はあまりにも難解で、多くの学生が困惑して教室を出て行った。

意味（1）

Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.

But I hope this new Messenger from Heauen doth bring happie tidings of some munificent and liberall Patron to these rauishing (but impouerishing) studies, by whose gracious bountie the most recondite mysteries of this abstruse and diuine science [astronomy] shall at length be manifested.

意味（2）

Little known; esoteric, secret.

[T]here was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward & recondit, a great Antiquary, and one that had a certain large poſſeſſion of Divine and Humane Lawes.

意味（3）

(of scholars) Having mastery over one's field, including its esoteric minutiae; learned.

It is delightful to see this recondite scholar [Thomas Browne]—this contemplative and refining dreamer—in the centre of his happy nor unworthy household.

意味（4）

(of writers) Deliberately employing abstruse or esoteric allusions or references; intentionally obscure.

They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.

意味（5）

(botany, entomology, obsolete, rare, of a structure) Difficult to see, especially because it is hidden by another structure.

Recondite, (aculeus) concealed within the abdomen, seldom exposed to view.

意味（6）

(chiefly zoology, rare) Avoiding notice (particularly human notice); having a tendency to hide; shy.

Animals of this class are so recondite in their habits... so little known to naturalists beyond the more common species.

more recondite （ comparative ）

most recondite （ superlative ）