occult

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
    

• hidden and difficult to see
  • an occult fracture
    
  • occult blood in the stool
    

Noun

• supernatural practices and techniques
  • he is a student of the occult
    

• supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
  • She doesn't believe in the supernatural
    

Verb

• hide from view
  • The lids were occulting her eyes
    

• become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
  • The beam of light occults every so often
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mysterious , mystic , mystical , secret , orphic , occult arts , supernatural , eclipse