arcane
adj/ɑɹˈkeɪn/US
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin arcānus (“hidden, secret”), from arceō (“to shut up, enclose”); cognate with Latin arca (“a chest”).
Definitions
Understood by only a few.
- arcane rituals
- arcane knowledge
- The professor’s lecture was full of arcane references.
Obscure, mysterious.
- arcane origins
- arcane details
Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
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Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
- an arcane law
The neighborhood
- synonymarcane
- synonymdark
- synonymenigmatic
- synonymesoteric
- synonymmystic
- synonymobscure
- synonymoccult
- synonymrecondite
- antonymaccessible
- antonymexoteric
- antonymirrecondite
- antonymnonesoteric
- antonymopen
- antonymwell-known
- neighborarcana
- neighborarculus
- neighborcovert
- neighborexclusive
- neighborincomprehensible
- neighbormysterious
- neighboracroamatic
- neighbormandarin
Derived
arcanely, arcaneness, arcanist, arcanity, arcanology, superarcane
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA