arcane
Adjective Satellite
- requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
- "the arcane science of dowsing"
Adj
- Understood by only a few.
- Obscure, mysterious.
- Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
- Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
Adjective
- Understood by few; mysterious or secret.
Examples
- an arcane law
- arcane details
- arcane knowledge
- arcane origins
- arcane rituals
- He specialized in playing arcane two-letter words that no one else knew.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin arcānus (“hidden, secret”), from arceō (“to shut up, enclose”); cognate with Latin arca (“a chest”).
Antonyms
accessible, exoteric, irrecondite, mundane, nonesoteric, open, well-known
Scrabble Score: 8
arcane: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordarcane: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
arcane: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
arcane: valid Words With Friends Word