occult
occult is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.
- transitive verb. To eclipse; to hide from sight.
- noun. supernatural practices and techniques
"he is a student of the occult"
- noun. supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
"She doesn't believe in the supernatural"
- verb. hide from view
"The lids were occulting her eyes"
- verb. become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
"The beam of light occults every so often"
- 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"
- adjective. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
"mysterious symbols"
"the mystical style of Blake"
- adjective. hidden and difficult to see
"an occult fracture"
"occult blood in the stool"
Synonyms
supernatural, eclipse, mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, secret
Common word forms
occults, occulted, occulter, occultly, occulting, occultness
Words from these letters
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