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arcane
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective arcane has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
arcane, adj. mysterious, secret; understood by few.
Derivative
arcanely adv.
Etymology
F arcane or L arcanus f. arcere shut up f. arca chest
THESAURUS
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
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