incondite
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconditus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/
Adjective
incondite
- 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.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 17
- 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 […].
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Anagrams
- identicon, nicotined
Latin
Adjective
incondite
- 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