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# Badly arranged; ill-composed; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disorderly disorderly], especially of artistic or literary works.
# Badly arranged; ill-composed; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disorderly disorderly], especially of artistic or literary 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.” — Charles Lamb, ''Essays of Elia''
#* “I wish I might digress and tell you more ... But my tale is sufficiently '''incondite''' already.” — Vladimir Nabokov, ''Lolita'', Chapter 17
# Rough; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unrefined unrefined]; lacking polish or sophistication.
# Rough; [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unrefined unrefined]; lacking polish or sophistication.
#* “[T]he second [symptom] is, ‘falso cogitata loqui’, to talk to themselves, or to use inarticulate, '''incondite''' voices, speeches, obsolete gestures...” — Robert Burton, ''The Anatomy of Melancholy''
# Lacking in manners; crude; ill-bred.
# Lacking in manners; crude; ill-bred.


===Other Dictionary Entries for "Incondite"===
===Other Dictionary Entries for "Incondite"===
#* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/incondite Wiktionary's Entry for "Incondite"]
#* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/incondite Wiktionary's Entry for "Incondite"]

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconditus (“unarranged, rude, unpolished”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA (UK): /ɪnˈkɒndɪt/

Adjective

incondite (comparative more incondite, superlative most incondite)

  1. Badly arranged; ill-composed; disorderly, especially of artistic or literary works.
  2. Rough; unrefined; lacking polish or sophistication.
  3. Lacking in manners; crude; ill-bred.

Other Dictionary Entries for "Incondite"

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