arcane

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ɑɹˈkeɪn/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Understood by only a few.
    — arcane rituals
  2. Obscure, mysterious. broadly
    — arcane origins
  3. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
    — 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.
  4. Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
    — an arcane law

词形变化

more arcane comparative most arcane superlative

词汇关系

近义词
arcane dark enigmatic esoteric mystic obscure occult recondite
反义词
accessible exoteric irrecondite nonesoteric open well-known
上位词
covert exclusive incomprehensible mysterious
下位词
acroamatic mandarin
衍生词
arcanely arcane magic arcaneness arcanist arcanity arcanology superarcane
相关词
arcana arculus

词源

Borrowed from Latin arcānus (“hidden, secret”), from arceō (“to shut up, enclose”); cognate with Latin arca (“a chest”).
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