'occult' definitions:
Definition of 'occult'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool"
adjective
Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]
noun
Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; "She doesn't believe in the supernatural" [syn: supernatural, occult]
noun
Supernatural practices and techniques; "he is a student of the occult" [syn: occult, occult arts]
verb
Cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies" [syn: eclipse, occult]
verb
Become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often"
verb
Hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes"
Synonyms of 'occult'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- abstruse,
- airy,
- anagogic,
- apply to,
- arcana,
- arcane,
- arcanum,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- baffling,
- becloud,
- beclouded,
- bedarken,
- bedim,
- befog,
- begloom,
- between the lines,
- black,
- black magic,
- black out,
- blacken,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- block the light,
- blot out,
- bodiless,
- bodilessness,
- brown,
- buried,
- bury,
- cabala,
- cabalic,
- cabalism,
- cabalistic,
- cabbala,
- cabbalism,
- cabbalistic,
- cache,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- cast a shadow,
- censored,
- classified,
- classified information,
- cloak,
- close,
- closed,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- clouded,
- conceal,
- concealed,
- confidence,
- confidential communication,
- cope,
- cover,
- cover up,
- covered,
- covert,
- cowl,
- dark,
- darken,
- darken over,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- deep,
- delitescent,
- dim,
- dim out,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- distract attention from,
- ditch,
- dormant,
- eclipse,
- eclipsed,
- eerie,
- eeriness,
- elfdom,
- encloud,
- encompass with shadow,
- enigma,
- enigmatic,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- esoteric,
- esoterica,
- ethereal,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- faerie,
- fey,
- film,
- ghostliness,
- ghostly,
- gloom,
- gloss over,
- guarded secret,
- heavy,
- hermetic,
- hermetics,
- hibernating,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hide,
- hood,
- hush-hush,
- hypernormal,
- hyperphysical,
- immaterial,
- immateriality,
- immaterialness,
- impalpability,
- impalpable,
- impenetrable,
- imponderability,
- imponderable,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- incommunicado,
- incomprehensible,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeality,
- incorporeity,
- indecipherable,
- inexplicable,
- inextension,
- inscrutable,
- insubstantial,
- intangibility,
- intangible,
- keep under cover,
- latent,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- lurking,
- magical,
- mantle,
- mask,
- metaphysic,
- miraculousness,
- muffle,
- muffled,
- murk,
- mysterious,
- mysteriousness,
- mystery,
- mystery of mysteries,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- mystifying,
- nonexteriority,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- numinous,
- numinousness,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obfuscated,
- obnubilate,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- obumbrate,
- occult phenomena,
- occultate,
- occultism,
- otherworldliness,
- otherworldly,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overlay,
- overshadow,
- overspread,
- perplexing,
- personal matter,
- phantom,
- possible,
- potential,
- preterhuman,
- preternatural,
- preternaturalism,
- preternormal,
- pretersensual,
- private,
- private matter,
- privileged communication,
- privity,
- privy,
- profound,
- profound secret,
- psychic,
- psychical research,
- psychicism,
- psychics,
- psychism,
- put on,
- puzzling,
- recondite,
- restricted,
- restricted information,
- screen,
- scum,
- sealed book,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- secrete,
- sequestered,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shadowiness,
- shadowy,
- shield,
- shroud,
- shrouded,
- sleeping,
- slur over,
- smothered,
- somber,
- sorcery,
- spirit world,
- spiritual,
- spirituality,
- spirituousness,
- spread over,
- stash,
- stifled,
- submerged,
- superhuman,
- superhumanity,
- superimpose,
- supernatural,
- supernaturalism,
- supernaturality,
- supernaturalness,
- supernature,
- supernormal,
- supernormalness,
- superphysical,
- superphysicalness,
- superpose,
- supersensible,
- supersensibleness,
- supersensual,
- suppressed,
- supramundane,
- supranatural,
- supranaturalism,
- supranature,
- the occult,
- the supernatural,
- the supersensible,
- the unknown,
- theosophical,
- theosophist,
- top secret,
- transcendental,
- transcendentalism,
- transmundane,
- ulterior,
- unbreatheable,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under security,
- under the surface,
- under wraps,
- underground,
- underlying,
- undisclosable,
- undisclosed,
- undivulgable,
- undivulged,
- unearthliness,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unexplainable,
- unexplained,
- unextended,
- unfathomable,
- unfleshly,
- unhuman,
- unknown,
- unmanifested,
- unphysical,
- unrevealable,
- unrevealed,
- unspoken,
- unsubstantial,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsubstantialness,
- untellable,
- untold,
- unutterable,
- unuttered,
- unwhisperable,
- unworldliness,
- unworldly,
- vague,
- varnish,
- veil,
- veiled,
- virtual,
- weird,
- whitewash,
- witchcraft,
- witchery,
- wrapped in clouds