What is "occult" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does occult mean in English? Meaning of occult definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "occult" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "occult": supernatural forces and events and beings collectively

Noun

  • Meaning: supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
  • Example: She doesn't believe in the supernatural
  • Synonyms: occult supernatural
  • Hypernyms: causal agency causal agent cause
  • Part Holonyms: destiny fate theurgy
  • Member Holonyms: spiritual being supernatural being
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

    Meaning of "occult": cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention

    Verb

  • Meaning: cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
  • Example: The Sun eclipses the moon today Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies
  • Synonyms: eclipse occult
  • Hypernyms: overshadow
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

    Meaning of "occult": hidden and difficult to see

    Adjective

  • Meaning: hidden and difficult to see
  • Example: an occult fracture occult blood in the stool
  • Synonyms: occult
  • Similar: invisible unseeable
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

    Meaning of "occult": supernatural practices and techniques

    Noun

  • Meaning: supernatural practices and techniques
  • Example: he is a student of the occult
  • Synonyms: occult occult arts
  • Hypernyms: pattern practice
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

    Meaning of "occult": become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished

    Verb

  • Meaning: become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
  • Example: The beam of light occults every so often
  • Synonyms: occult
  • Hypernyms: change
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

    Meaning of "occult": having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
  • Example: mysterious symbols the mystical style of Blake occult lore the secret learning of the ancients
  • Synonyms: mysterious mystic mystical occult orphic secret
  • Similar: esoteric
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

    Meaning of "occult": hide from view

    Verb

  • Meaning: hide from view
  • Example: The lids were occulting her eyes
  • Synonyms: occult
  • Hypernyms: conceal hold back hold in
  • Pronunciation in US: /əˈkʌlt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɒk.ʌlt/, /əˈkʌlt/

  • Adjective: (transitive, astronomy) To cover or hide from view. The earth occults the moon during a lunar eclipse.(transitive, rare) To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.
  • Synonyms:

    magic, veiled, unknown, psychic, deep, concealed, mystic, weird, obscure, hidden, abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, eerie, esoteric, hermetic, invisible, magical, mystical, preternatural, profound, recondite, unearthly, acroamatic, orphic, transmundane, unrevealed,

    Antonyms:

    known, obvious, uncovered, open, bare, clear, exposed, natural,

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