recondite

Definition

Difficult, obscure.

Example Sentences

• "a recondite tractate on alchemy"
• "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."
• "Humanly speaking, it is a more important matter to play the fiddle, even badly, than to write huge works upon recondite subjects."