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incondite

UK/ɪnˈkɒndɪt/

incondite adjective: badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).

Adjective

incondite

  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.1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page v
    • I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 17, in Lolita
  2. Rough, unrefined.
    • [T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures,[…].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd...

incondite meaning in Bengali

incondite in Bengali

incondite
আলগা alga

Origin of incondite

Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

Questions about incondite

What does incondite mean?
Incondite means badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).
What is incondite in Bengali?
Incondite in Bengali is আলগা (alga). See Incondite meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is incondite?
Incondite is an adjective.
How do you pronounce incondite?
Incondite is pronounced /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/ (UK).

Words near incondite in the dictionary

  1. inconcussible
  2. incondensability
  3. incondensable
  4. incondensible
  5. incondign
  6. incondite
  7. inconditely
  8. inconditional
  9. inconditionate
  10. incondonable
  11. inconducive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incondite (page history and authors); আলগা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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