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irrecondite

irrecondite adjective: not recondite; well-known.

Adjective

irrecondite (comparative more irrecondite, superlative most irrecondite)

  1. Not recondite; well-known.
    • […] Socrates […] was rather a moral and political, than a physical or metaphysical philosopher; and hence his creed was either deficient upon the subject of cosmology, or too simple and irrecondite to satisfy the curiosity of his pupils.1805, John Mason Good, “Appendix”, in Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by John Mason Good, The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […]...
    • ..than institutions of another class were found wanting: — a something that might fill up the space between the cloistered scholar and the irrecondite citizen ; the...1834, John Mason Good, Nature of the Animate World, page 336

Forms of irrecondite

comparativemore irrecondite
superlativemost irrecondite

Origin of irrecondite

From ir- + recondite.

Questions about irrecondite

What does irrecondite mean?
Irrecondite means not recondite; well-known.
What part of speech is irrecondite?
Irrecondite is an adjective.

Words near irrecondite in the dictionary

  1. irreconciles
  2. irreconciliable
  3. irreconciliableness
  4. irreconciliation
  5. irreconciling
  6. irrecondite
  7. irrecordable
  8. irrecoverability
  9. irrecoverable
  10. irrecoverableness
  11. irrecoverably

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