Thesaurus:arcane

Thesaurus

arcane

English

Adjective

Sense: requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand

Synonyms

• arcane
• enigmatic
• esoteric
• mystic
• obscure
• occult
• recondite

Antonyms

• accessible
• exoteric
• irrecondite
• nonesoteric
• open
• well-known

Hyponyms

• acroamatic
• mandarin

Hypernyms

• covert    [⇒ thesaurus]
• exclusive
• incomprehensible    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mysterious    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “528. concealment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “arcane” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.