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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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