Word Meanings - OCCULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure

Additional info about word: OCCULT

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan. -- Occult qualities, those qualities whose effects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen. -- Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OCCULT)

• Abstruse
• Hidden
• recondite
• difficult
• profound
• deep
• curious
• obscure
• mystical
• occult
• hard
• dark
• Cabalistic
• Mystic
• symbolical
• fanciful
• Deep
• Profound
• subterranean
• submerged
• designing
• abstruse
• learned
• low
• sagacious
• penetrating
• thick
• mysterious
• Intense
• heartfelt
• Latent
• Invisible
• inapparent
• unobserved
• hidden
• concealed
• undeveloped
• implicit
• potential
• inherent
• secret

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OCCULT)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to OCCULT)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• ABSTRUSELY
  In an abstruse manner.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• OCCULTED
  Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon. (more info) 1. Hidden; secret. Shak.
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.