incondite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconditus.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/

Adjective

incondite

  1. Badly-arranged, ill-composed, disorderly (especially of artistic works).
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 17
      I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently incondite already.
  2. Rough, unrefined.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
      , I.iii.1.4:
      the second [symptom] is falso cogitata loqui, to talk to themselves, or to use inarticulate, incondite voices, speeches, obsolete gestures […].

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

incondite

  1. vocative masculine singular of inconditus

References
  • “incondite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “incondite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incondite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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