difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
Recondite areas of knowledge or learning are difficult to understand, and not many people know about them. Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter. recondite facts or subjects are not known about or understood by many people = obscure (reconditus, past participle of recondere )
Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things
\REK-un-dyt\, adjective: 1 Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge 2 Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies