arcane

Meaning of arcane

adjective
  1. understood by few; mysterious or secret.
    arcane procedures for electing people

mid 16th century: from Latin arcanus, from arcere ‘to shut up’, from arca ‘chest’.

Information about arcane

Hyphenation of arcane

ar-cane

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • arcane is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

arcane synonyms

Meaning difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify:

mysterious

Meaning not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others:

secret

Meaning kept out of sight; concealed:

hidden

Meaning kept secret; hidden:

concealed

Meaning not openly acknowledged or displayed:

covert

Meaning kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit:

clandestine

Meaning difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious:

enigmatic

Meaning hidden from knowledge; mysterious:

dark

Meaning intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest:

esoteric

Meaning not clearly expressed or easily understood:

obscure

Meaning difficult to understand; obscure:

abstruse

Meaning (of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse:

recondite

Meaning impossible to understand or interpret:

inscrutable

Meaning impossible to pass through or enter:

impenetrable

Meaning (especially of language) hard or impossible to understand:

opaque

Meaning not able to be understood; not intelligible:

incomprehensible

Meaning having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure:

cryptic

Meaning involving or relating to mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena:

occult

arcane antonyms

Meaning allowing access, passage, or a view through an empty space; not closed or blocked:

open

Translation of arcane

Anagrams of arcane

carane, Carena

Words that rhyme with arcane

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