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occult - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: occult
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious, secret; supernatural
Synonyms: abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, deep, eerie, esoteric, hermetic, hidden, invisible, magic, magical, mystic, mystical, obscure, preternatural, profound, psychic, recondite, unearthly, unknown, veiled, weird, acroamatic, orphic, transmundane, unrevealed
Antonyms: known, natural
Main Entry: arcane
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hidden, secret
Synonyms: cabalistic, esoteric, impenetrable, mysterious, mystic, occult, recondite, unaccountable, unknowable
Antonyms: common, commonplace, known, normal, outward
Main Entry: cryptic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; obscure in meaning
Synonyms: abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hidden, incomprehensible, inexplicable, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear, unfathomable, vague, veiled, Delphian, Delphic, mystifying, uninformative
Notes: cryptic coloration helps conceal an animal; phaneric coloration makes an animal stand out
Antonyms: clear, obvious, plain, straightforward, seen
Main Entry: elusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evasive, mysterious
Synonyms: ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific
Antonyms: confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing
Main Entry: enigmatic/enigmatical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious
Synonyms: ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible, Delphian, Sibylline, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping
Antonyms: clear, obvious, unmysterious
Main Entry: esoteric
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret, Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, acroamatic
Antonyms: common, familiar, known, obvious, public, unmysterious
Main Entry: hidden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unseen, secret
Synonyms: abstruse, clandestine, cloaked, close, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, disguised, esoteric, hermetic, in the dark, indiscernible, invisible, latent, masked, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, private, recondite, secluded, shadowy, surreptitious, ulterior, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unknown, veiled, withheld, QT, buried, clouded, eclipsed, hermetical, imperceivable, out of view, screened, sequestered, shrouded, undetected, unexposed, unrevealed
Antonyms: bare, exhibited, exposed, open, out, showing, uncovered, seen
Main Entry: implied
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hinted at
Synonyms: constructive, hidden, implicit, indicated, indicative, indirect, inferential, inherent, intended, involved, latent, lurking, occult, parallel, perceptible, potential, suggested, tacit, understood, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, adumbrated, alluded to, allusive, connoted, figured, foreshadowed, inferred, insinuated, meant, significative, signified, symbolized, tacitly assumed, undeclared, unuttered, wordless
Antonyms: stated, explicated, expressed
Main Entry: invisible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to be seen; hidden
Synonyms: concealed, covert, deceptive, disguised, ethereal, gaseous, ghostly, ideal, impalpable, imperceptible, inconspicuous, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, intangible, masked, microscopic, obliterated, occult, out of sight, supernatural, ulterior, undisclosed, unreal, unseen, vaporous, veiled, imponderable, inappreciable, not in sight, obscured, perdu, screened, unapparent, ungraspable, unnoticeable, unobservable, unperceivable, unseeable, unviewable, wraithlike
Antonyms: obvious, visible, detectable, seen
Main Entry: magic/magical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bewitching, charming
Synonyms: bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly
Antonyms: normal, unmoving
Main Entry: mysterious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret, concealed
Synonyms: abstruse, arcane, baffling, cabalistic, covert, cryptic, curious, dark, difficult, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, magical, mystical, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, spiritual, strange, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknown, unnatural, veiled, weird, alchemistic, astrological, enigmatical, mystifying, necromantic, sphinxlike, unknowable
Antonyms: apparent, known, obvious, plain, public, straightforward, tangible, unmysterious
Main Entry: mystery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: puzzle, secret
Synonyms: charade, cliffhanger*, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, occult, oracle, poser, problem, question, riddle, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question*, stickler, subtlety, twister, why*, abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, chiller, closed book, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, rebus, rune, sphinx, stumper, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, whodunit
Antonyms: known, understanding
Main Entry: mystic/mystical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret, esoteric
Synonyms: abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, wizardly
Antonyms: knowable, natural, palpable, undisguised
Main Entry: new age
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: of a broad-ranging consciousness-raising movement
Synonyms: alternative, balanced, holistic, mystic, occult, planetary, spiritual, Age of Aquarius, astrological, crystal healing, supernaturalist
Main Entry: oracular
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: prophetic
Synonyms: ambiguous, apocalyptic, arcane, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, dogmatic, foreboding, imperious, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portentous, positive, prescient, sage, secret, significant, vague, venerable, wise, Delphian, anticipating, auguring, discovering, divining, divulging, fatidic, forecasting, foretelling, interpretive, mantic, portending, predicting, presaging, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sibylline, soothsaying, vatic
Main Entry: paranormal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: supernatural
Synonyms: abnormal, celestial, ghostly, metaphysical, mysterious, mystic, occult, phenomenal, preternatural, psychic, spectral, transcendental, unearthly, uncomprehensible
Main Entry: prophetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: telling of the future
Synonyms: apocalyptic, occult, oracular, prescient, veiled, Delphian, augural, divinatory, fatidic, foreshadowing, mantic, predictive, presaging, prognostic, prophetical, pythonic, sibylline, vaticinal
Main Entry: psychic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extrasensory in perception
Synonyms: cerebral, clairvoyant, immaterial, impressible, impressionable, intellectual, mental, metaphysical, mystic, occult, preternatural, psychological, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, spiritual, supernatural, susceptible, unworldly, analytic, intellective, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, sensile, supersensible, supersensitive, supersensory, supersensual, susceptive, telekinetic, telepathic, transmundane
Main Entry: questionable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, uncertain
Synonyms: ambiguous, apocryphal, arguable, contingent, controversial, cryptic, debatable, disputable, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, fishy*, hypothetical, iffy*, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, moot, mysterious, obscure, occult, oracular, problematic, provisional, shady, suspect, suspicious, undefined, unreliable, unsettled, vague, controvertible, dubitable, hard to believe, open to doubt, open to question, paradoxical, problematical, unconfirmed, under advisement, under examination, unproven
Antonyms: certain, definite, indisputable, sure, undoubted, unquestionable, proven
Main Entry: recondite
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, academic, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, esoteric, hard, heavy*, hermetic, hidden, involved, mystic, mystical, occult, pedantic, profound, scholarly, secret, acroamatic, little-known, orphic
Antonyms: obvious, plain, simple, straightforward
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