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recondite

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of recondite

difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand

geochemistry is a recondite subject

Synonyms of recondite

abstruse, arcane, deep, esoteric, hermetic (also hermetical), profound

Words Related to recondite

erudite, learned, scholarly

academic (also academical), pedantic

complex, complicated, hard

darkling, enigmatic (also enigmatical), inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, uncanny

impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible

ambiguous, cryptic

unanswerable, unknowable

baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, disorienting, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling

Near Antonyms of recondite

easy, facile, simple, straightforward

comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable

apparent, clear, clear-cut, distinct, evident, lucid, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, transparent

Antonyms of recondite

shallow, superficial

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