Incondite

//ɪnˈkɒndɪt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).

    "I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases."

  2. 2
    Rough, unrefined.

    "[T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures,[…]."

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uncivilized

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"I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

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