Occult

Definitions: Occult

Occult

Adjective

1. Hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool".

2. 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".

Noun

1. Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; "She doesn't believe in the supernatural".

Verb

1. 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".

2. Become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often".

3. Hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "occult" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Occult

Concealment

Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.

Latency Implication

Noun: {ant. } latency, inexpression; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge; silence; (taciturnity); concealment; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes, undercurrent.

Adjective: latent; lurking;Verb: secret; occult; implied; Verb: dormant; abeyant.

Sorcery

Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.

Unintelligibility

Indefinite, garbled; (indistinct); perplexed; (confused); undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical; acroamatic, acroamatical; metempirical; transcendental; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed.

Crosswords: Occult

Danish (occult), Dutch (occult).

Professor of archeology, expert on the occult, and how does one say it? (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman)

Sex Rituals of the Occult (1970)

The Occult History of the Third Reich (1999)

Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998)

The Occult Experience (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Metastatic Squamous Neck Cancer with Occult Primary (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons (reference)

• The Magus Book 1 & 2: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy (reference)

• Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) (reference)

• Vampires: The Occult Truth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Occult History of the Third Reich (reference)

• Hitler & The Occult (reference)

• Occult History of the Third Reich: Box Set (reference)

• Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: Occult & Secrets (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Britannia Infurnus: History of British Occult (reference)

• Mass Suicide Occult Figurines (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Fortunately, simple tests can detect occult blood in the stool. (references)

These growths can cause either bright red blood or occult bleeding. (references)

The fecal occult blood test checks for small amounts of blood in the stool. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "occult": faecal occult test ♦ Fecal Occult Blood Test ♦ fecal occult test ♦ Occult Bleeding ♦ Occult Blood ♦ occult line ♦ Occult medicine ♦ occult qualities ♦ occult sciences ♦ study the occult ♦ the occult. Additional references.

Ending with "occult": judeo-masonic-communist-occult, soft-occult.

Albanian

okult, magjik (elfish, elvish, enchanting, magic, magical), i padukshëm (concealed, imperceptible, inappreciable, invisible, noteless, obscure, unostentatious, unseen), i mistershëm (cryptic, hidden, magic, magical, mysterious, mystic, puzzling, uncanny, weird), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسائل السحر و التنجيم, ‏ما وراء الطبيعة (metaphysical, metaphysics), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏تخفى (go under, lurk, masquerade), ‏سحرى (hermetic), ‏سري (clandestine, classified, close, closet, confidential, covert, cryptic, discreet, furtive, hugger mugger, hush hush, inmost, low key, mysterious, mystic, off the record, private, privy, sacramental, secret, slinking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, umbilical, undercover, underground, underhand), ‏خفي (covert, cryptic, disguised, hidden, invisible, mysterious, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior, unseen, veiled), ‏إستتر (hidden, lurk). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скрит (cagey, cagy, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implicit, implied, insidious, latent, potential, private, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, snug, ulterior, underlying), свръхестествен (eerie, hyperphysical, metaphysical, miraculous, preternatural, spiritual, supernatural, supersensible, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, weird), секретен (secret), таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, darkling, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), окултен (cabbalistic, hermetic), мистериозен (arcane, mysterious, mystic), затъмнявам (adumbrate, becloud, black out, cloud, darken, eclipse, obscure, outshine, out-top, shade, shadow), прикрит (backstage, covered, deep, disingenuous, oblique, secret), поверителен (classified, confidential, esoteric, hush hush, private, privileged, privy, restricted, secret). (various references)

Chinese 

隐密. (various references)

Czech

okultní, záhadný (baffling, cryptic, enigmatic, inexplicable, mysterious, unknown), tajný (clandestine, classified, confidential, furtive, hole-and-corner, inward, privy, restricted, retired, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unspoken), magický (magical, necromantic). (various references)

Danish

occult. (various references)

Dutch

occult. (various references)

Esperanto

okulta. (various references)

Farsi 

پوشیده (Covert, Impenetrable, Latent, Overcast, Recondite, Secret), مکتوم , مستترکردن , مخفی کردن (Camouflage, Huddle, Stow, Submerge), نهانی (Last, Potential, Secret, Suberranean, Surreptitious, Undercover, Underhand), سری (Crypt, Esoteric, Undercover), اسرارامیز (Mysterious, Numinous, Secret), ازنظرپنهان کردن , رمزی (Allegorical, Cryptic, Esoteric, Figurative, Runic, Symbolic, Undercover). (various references)

Finnish

salatieteet (occult sciences), salatie (occult sciences). (various references)

French

occulte. (various references)

German

okkult. (various references)

Greek 

κρυφόσ (covert, furtive, privy, sneaking, surreptitious, undercover), μυστηριώδησ (cabalistic, eerie, mysterious, mystic, mystical, uncanny), υπερφησικώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסתורי (arcane, enigmatic, mysterious, mystic, unearthly), כמוס (concealed, hidden, inscrutable, latent, secret, ulterior), נסתר (concealed, cryptic, hidden, latent, latescent, recondite). (various references)

Hungarian

okkult (cryptic), titkos (clandestine, classified, confidential, covert, cryptic, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, hush hush, inner, lurky, mystic, privy, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, top secret, undercover), rejtett (arcane, clandestine, concealed, covert, dormant, hidden, hooded, hugger-mugger, inner, latent, latent image, perdu, potential, privy, recondite, stealthy, surreptitious). (various references)

Indonesian

ilmu gaib, gaib (hidden, incrutable, invisible, magic, mysterious, supernatural, unseen). (various references)

Italian

occulto (hidden, secret). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

玄妙 (abstruse, mysterious), 幽玄 (mystery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

オカルト , ゆうげん (finite, limited, mystery), げんみょう (abstruse, mysterious), ちょうしぜん (transcendental). (various references)

Korean 

신비로운. (various references)

Manx

kyaghtey (occultation), follaghey (bo-peep, cache, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dissimulation, hide, hiding, muffle, occultation, secrecy, secrete, veil), druaightagh (charmer, charming, druid, druidic, druidical, magician). (various references)

Pig Latin

occultay

Portuguese

oculto (cryptic, deep, disinherit, inner anchorage, latent, mysticism, offscreen, perdu, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, ulterior, underlying, unseen). (various references)

Romanian

ocult (abstruse, hidden, mystic, recondite, secret, supernatural), supranatural (miraculous, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly, weird), secret (arcanum, close, confidential, cover, covertly, hidden, hugger mugger, internal, mysterious, mystery, private, privy, quiet, reticence, secrecy, secret, secretly, ulterior, underground, undisclosed, unspoken, untold), misterios (awsome, daedal, dark, darkly, deep, enigmatical, enigmatically, hidden, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, secret, uncanny, unsearchable), magic (magic, magical, magically, mystic, weird), ezoteric (esoteric), ascuns (abstruse, backstairs, blind, cagey, close, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, furtive, hidden, masked, mystic, postern, privy, q.t., quiet, recondite, secluded, secret, secretive, self contained, sneaking, stealthy, sunken, ulterior, uncommunicative, underground, underhand, undiscovered), abstrus (abstract, abstruse). (various references)

Russian 

таинственный (bellicose, cryptic, eerie, mysterious, mystic, numinous, Orphic, unsearchable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

okultan, zakloniti (cover, guard, obstruct, screen, shelter, shut in), tajanstven (arcane, dark, eldritch, hidden, mysterious, orphic, secretive), pomračiti (eclipse). (various references)

Spanish

oculto (absconded, covert, hidden, unseen). (various references)

Swedish

ockult. (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับเวทมนตร์, เวทมนตร์ (magic), ลึกลับ (mystic, shadowy), ซ่อน (hide, shroud). (various references)

Turkish

gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), esrarlı (arcane, cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystical, numinous, secret, unaccountable), doğaüstü (metaphysical, preternatural, supernatural, superphysical, unearthly), bilinmez (problem, puzzlement, puzzler, question, recondite, unknown), bilinmeyen (mysterious, mystery, obscure, recondite, secret, strange, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unknown, unknown quantity, x), büyülü (eldritch, magical, sorcerous), anlaşılmaz (bottomless, clear as mud, complicated, deep, delphic, elusive, elusory, fathomless, impenetrable, inapprehensible, inarticulate, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inexplicable, inscrutable, intangible, obscure, opaque, oracular, perplexed, puzzling, recondite, sphinxlike, unaccountable, uncanny, unintelligible, vague, weird). (various references)

Ukranian 

темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), таємничий (cabbalistic, cryptic, eldritch, esoteric, mysterious, mystical, orphean, orphic, secretive, unearthly, weird), таємний (arcane, back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hideaway, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover), окультні науки, окультний, мигати (bat, bat one's eyes, blink, nictate, nictitate), заслоняти (interrupt, obscure, obstruct), закривати (bar, blench, break up, close, close down, close up, fasten up, flounce, obturate, occlude, shut), заповітний (intern, intimate, sacramental), блимати (blink, glimmer, shimmer), потаємний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sâu kín (deep, deep-seated), huyền bí điều huyền bí. (various references)

Welsh

argel (concealment, hidden, refuge, secret, secret place). (various references)

occultus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "occult": occultation, occultations, occulted, occulter, occulters, occulting, occultism, occultisms, occultist, occultists, occultly, occults. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Occult" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accult, acult, occu, occul, occulta, occultic, occut, Ocicat, Ockold, o'cold, ocolt, ocu, Oculi, ocult, oculte, oculto. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clout.

-2 letters: clot, colt, cult, lout, tolu.

-3 letters: col, cot, cut, lot, out.

-4 letters: lo, to, ut.

+1 letter: occults.

+2 letters: occulted, occulter, occultly.

+3 letters: coculture, mucolytic, occulters, occulting, occultism, occultist.

+4 letters: acoustical, calculator, circulator, cocultured, cocultures, conceptual, flocculant, flocculate, flocculent, inculcator, leukocytic, occultisms, occultists, plutocracy, uricotelic.

+5 letters: accountable, accountably, accumulator, anacoluthic, breechclout, calculation, calculators, circulation, circulators, circulatory, cocultivate, coculturing, columnistic, conductible, conflictful, conflictual, conjectural, consultancy, contractual, coulometric, electrocute, flocculants, flocculated, flocculates, flocculator, glauconitic, inculcation, inculcators, occultation, plutocratic, sacculation, shuttlecock, subcortical, uncollected.

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