Occult

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena.
  • adj. Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable.
  • adj. Available only to the initiate; secret: occult lore. See Synonyms at mysterious.
  • adj. Hidden from view; concealed.
  • adj. Medicine Detectable only by microscopic examination or chemical analysis, as a minute blood sample.
  • adj. Not accompanied by readily detectable signs or symptoms: occult carcinoma.
  • n. Occult practices or techniques: a student of the occult.
  • v. To conceal or cause to disappear from view.
  • v. Astronomy To conceal by occultation: The moon occulted Mars.
  • verb-intransitive. To become concealed or extinguished at regular intervals: a lighthouse beacon that occults every 45 seconds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cover or hide from view.
  • v. To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.
  • adj. Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected
  • adj. Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
  • adj. Esoteric.
  • n. Supernatural affairs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; invisible; secret; concealed; unknown.
  • v. To eclipse; to hide from sight.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not apparent upon mere inspection, nor deducible from what is so apparent, but discoverable only by experimentation; relating to what is thus undiscoverable by mere inspection: opposed to manifest.
  • Mysterious; transcendental; beyond the bounds of natural knowledge.
  • Synonyms Latent, Covert, etc. (see secret), unrevealed, recondite, abstruse, veiled, shrouded, mystic, cabalistic.
  • To cut off from view by the intervention of another body; hide; conceal; eclipse.
  • To undergo occultation; be hidden or concealed, as a star or the intermittent beam of light from a lighthouse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
  • v. cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
  • adj. hidden and difficult to see
  • n. supernatural practices and techniques
  • v. hide from view
  • adj. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
  • v. become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
  • Equivalent
    invisible    unseeable    esoteric   
    Verb Form
    occulted    occulting    occults   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cause    causal agency    causal agent    overshadow    pattern    practice    holdback    hold in    conceal    change   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    invisible    secret    concealed    unknown    eclipse    hide   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adult    bult    consult    cult    exult    insult    result   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    esoteric    supernatural    mystical    Masonic    buddhist    metaphysical    elementary    kindred    theological    tantric