Incondite

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.
   • “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
2. Rough; 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
3. Lacking in manners; crude; ill-bred.

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