Arcane

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arcane \Ar*cane"\, a. [L. arcanus.]
     Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom."
     --Berkeley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  arcane
       adj : requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane
             science of dowsing"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "arcane":
     abstract, abstruse, cabalistic, censored, classified, close,
     closed, concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, eerie, enigmatic, esoteric,
     extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush,
     hypernormal, hyperphysical, impenetrable, inscrutable, latent,
     mysterious, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, otherworldly,
     preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, profound,
     psychic, recondite, restricted, secret, smothered, spiritual,
     stifled, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical,
     supersensible, supersensual, suppressed, supramundane,
     supranatural, top secret, transcendental, transmundane, ulterior,
     unaccountable, unbreatheable, uncanny, under security, under wraps,
     undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unearthly,
     unguessed, unhuman, unknowable, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken,
     untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable,
     unworldly, weird