The theories of relativity can seem recondite even for people who are well versed in the sciences.
Source: tatoeba (399654)
Recondite
//ˈɹɛk(ə)nˌdaɪt//
Synonyms for "recondite" (89 found)
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Related words (44)
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17 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- неясен adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- отвлечен adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Catalan
1 entries- recòndit adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Dutch
3 entries- duister adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- obscuur adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- verborgen adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Finnish
2 entries- monimutkainen adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- vaikeatajuinen adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
French
3 entries- caché adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- reculé adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- retiré adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Italian
1 entries- recondito adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Japanese
1 entries- 幽玄 adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Māori
1 entries- waowao adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Russian
2 entries- замыслова́тый adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
- мудрёный adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Spanish
1 entries- recóndito adj (difficult to grasp or understand — see also abstruse, profound)
Sample sentences
40 total sentences available.
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
Source: tatoeba (8211949)
a recondite tractate on alchemy
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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