The meaning of Arcane

adjective

Difficult to understand; obscure.

Usage examples:

An abstruse philosophical inquiry

adjective

Not known or understood by many people

Usage examples:

An abstruse philosophical essay

adjective

Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.

Usage examples:

She deserved better than these clandestine meetings

adjective

Planned or done in secret

Usage examples:

A clandestine meeting, the virus clandestinely burrowed its way into computers across the globe.

adjective

Kept secret; hidden.

Usage examples:

A concealed weapon

verb

Not allow to be seen; hide.

Usage examples:

A line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea

adjective

Kept hidden or where it cannot easily be seen

Usage examples:

The robbery had been recorded on a concealed security camera., he was carrying a concealed weapon.,…

adjective

Not openly acknowledged or displayed.

Usage examples:

Covert operations against the dictatorship

noun

A thicket in which game can hide.

Usage examples:

I couldn't help but admire the beautifully laid out game crops and newly-planted coverts.

adjective

Hidden or secret

Usage examples:

Covert military operations

adjective

Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.

Usage examples:

He found his boss's utterances too cryptic

adjective

Mysterious and difficult to understand

Usage examples:

A cryptic message/remark

adjective

With little or no light.

Usage examples:

It's too dark to see much

noun

The absence of light in a place.

Usage examples:

Carolyn was sitting in the dark

adjective

Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.

Usage examples:

He took the money with an enigmatic smile

adjective

Mysterious and impossible to understand completely

Usage examples:

The mona lisa has a famously enigmatic smile., he left an enigmatic message on my answering machine.

adjective

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

Usage examples:

Esoteric philosophical debates

adjective

Intended for or understood by only a few people who have special knowledge

Usage examples:

Literary readings can sometimes seem esoteric, but we are trying to make them more attractive to mo…

adjective

Past participle of hide1.

verb

Put or keep out of sight.

Usage examples:

He hid the money in the house

adjective

Used to describe costs that are not normally included in the original price of something, or are not normally considered when judging something

Usage examples:

Hidden charges/costs/extras, hidden fees/penalties, there are the hidden costs of climate change th…

adjective

Impossible to pass through or enter.

Usage examples:

A dark, impenetrable forest

adjective

Impossible to enter or go through

Usage examples:

An impenetrable jungle, too many scholarly books are written in an impenetrable jargon.

adjective

Not able to be understood; not intelligible.

Usage examples:

A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office

adjective

Impossible to understand or interpret.

Usage examples:

Guy looked blankly inscrutable

adjective

Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.

Usage examples:

His colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances

adjective

Strange, not known, or not understood

Usage examples:

She's an actress whose inner life has remained mysterious, despite the many interviews she has give…

adjective

Not discovered or known about; uncertain.

Usage examples:

His origins and parentage are obscure

verb

Keep from being seen; conceal.

Usage examples:

Grey clouds obscure the sun

adjective

Not known to many people

Usage examples:

An obscure 18th-century painter, official policy has changed for reasons that remain obscure.

noun

Mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena.

Usage examples:

A secret society to study alchemy and the occult

adjective

Involving or relating to mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena.

Usage examples:

An occult ceremony

verb

Cut off from view by interposing something.

Usage examples:

A wooden screen designed to occult the competitors

adjective

Not able to be seen through; not transparent.

Usage examples:

Bottles filled with a pale opaque liquid

noun

An opaque thing.

Usage examples:

To be honest, it's a relief when summer is over and we can get back into good old black opaques, wh…

adjective

(of a substance) preventing light from traveling through, and therefore not allowing you to see through it

Usage examples:

Opaque watercolors, the majority of readers found his poetry difficult, even opaque.

adjective

Rare, exotic, or obscure.

Usage examples:

A few linguistic terms are perhaps a bit recherché for the average readership

adjective

(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.

Usage examples:

The book is full of recondite information

adjective

Not known about by many people and difficult to understand

Usage examples:

We had to work from material that was both complex and recondite.

adjective

Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others.

Usage examples:

How did you guess i'd got a secret plan?

noun

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

Usage examples:

A state secret

noun

A piece of information that is not generally known or is not known by someone else and should not be told to others

Usage examples:

We don’t keep secrets from each other., don’t tell anyone – it’s a secret., what’s the secret of yo…