- occult
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)II(Roget's IV) modif.1. [Hidden]2. [Concerning supernatural powers]Syn. mystical, magical, supernatural; see mysterious 2 , secret 1 .n.Syn. mysticism, the supernatural, hermetics; see mysticism , spiritualism 1 .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)In.mystical arts, cabalism, mysticism, occultism, channeling, astrology, voodoo, alchemy, tarot, Ouija board, psychic powers, clairvoyance, exorcism, satanism, devil worshipping, sorcery, witchcraft, telekinesis, telepathy, reincarnation, possession. see magicIIa.supernatural, secret, hidden, magical, unexplainable, unfathomable, arcane, mystical, cryptic, esoteric, orphic.WORD FIND• affected or demented by unseen forces: touched• assembly headed by a medium who summons spirits: seance• ball of glass hung in window to ward off evil spirits: witch ball• beetle talisman of Egypt: scarab• black magic: black arts, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry• black magic, one who practices: sorcerer, sorceress, witch, wizard• board game used to summon the spiritual world and answer questions: Ouija board• cards, fortune-telling: tarot cards• castle mirage: fata morgana• celestial bodies, divining one’s fate by position of: astrology• celestial bodies used to predict one’s fate, a chart of: horoscope• celestial pathway divided into 12 astrological signs: zodiac celestial bodies at a precise time to predict one’s fate, the plotting of: horoscope• Celtic order of priests who acted as prophet or sorcerer, member of a: druid• charm to ward off evil: amulet, talisman• coincidence, hidden meaning and interconnectedness of: synchronicity• communications, acting as a medium to receive spiritual: channeling• corpse brought back to life: zombie• crystal ball, read the future by gazing into a: scry• curse or spell: hex, whammy• dead, returns from: revenant• demon through prayers and incantations, casting out of: exorcism• evil, magic used for: black magic• evil spirit, occupied by an: possessed• feeling that one has experienced or visited a place before in a past life, eerie: deja vu• formula or incantation causing trance state or other prescribed behavior: spell• future by various means, reading the:divination• future, knowledge of what will transpire in the: prescience• future, one who has the ability to predict the: prophet, psychic, seer• future, prediction of what will occur in the: prophesy• future will bring, one who tells what the: soothsayer• future, seeing the: precognition• ghost, noisy: poltergeist• ghost who haunts its living twin: doppelganger• ghostly visitations or appearances: haunting• glass ball used to peer into the future: crystal ball• Haitian religion employing charms and fetishes: voodoo• healing through prayer alone: faith healing• hear the spirit world, ability to: clairaudience• intuition, understanding the spiritual world through: gnosis• intuition, pre-Christians who believed spiritual world could be understood through: Gnostics• language without studying, acquiring of foreign: xenoglossia• letters and characters, mystical: runes• love potion: philter• luck, bad: hoodoo• luck, one who brings bad: hoodoo• luck, thing that brings bad: jinx• magic used for good: white magic• meaning, having a hidden: cabalistic• memory of experiences before one’s existence: past life memories• metal into gold, stone or substance once believed could turn: philosopher’s stone• mind reader: psychic• misfortune, invocation of: curse• move objects with one’s mind, ability to: psychokinesis, telekinesis• Native American mysticism and magic: shamanism• numbers to determine one’s fate, study of: numerology• object, such as rabbit’s foot, thought to have magical power: charm, fetish• omens and signs, study of: augury• otherworldly: ethereal• palm reader: chiromancer• perceive what cannot be physically seen, ability to: clairvoyance• perceive what cannot be physically seen, one who can: clairvoyant perception, all things beyond explanation or• human: paranormal; the supernatural• psychic ability: ESP, extra sensory perception, sixth sense, third eye• psychic powers, referring to: psi• psychic or other powers, study of: parapsychology quartz or other transparent mineral used in• healing: crystal• radiance surrounding some people or objects, mystical: aura• reader of omens and signs, ancient Roman: augur• receives spiritual messages, person or thing that: medium, channeler, oracle• release of one’s soul from physical body, temporary: out-of-body experience• Satan worship: diabolism, Satanism• Satan worshippers, group of: Satanic cult• science, phony: pseudoscience• sign, magical: sigil• sign of things to come: omen, portent• sorcery and witchcraft: black arts• soul, belief that nature has a: animism• spellbinding: hypnotism, mesmerism• spell utterance: incantation• spiritual world, belief in: mysticism• summon a spirit, to: conjure• thought transference to another: telepathy• time and space eddy through which one may travel to another dimension: vortex• trance, put someone in a: spellbind• travel, spiritual, out-of-body: astral projection• voodoo, form of Brazilian: macumba• voodoo priestess, Haitian: mambo• water by forked divining rod, searching for underground: dowsing• water by forked divining rod, one who searches for: dowser• werewolf, ability to change oneself into a: lycanthropy• witchcraft practiced for the good of the earth and the environment: Wicca• witches, group of 13: coven• witch, male: warlock• written word, spirit communication through medium through: spirit writingsee divinationIV(Roget's Thesaurus II) I adjective Difficult to explain or understand: arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, enigmatic, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, puzzling. See EXPLAIN, KNOWLEDGE. II verb To put or keep out of sight: bury, cache, conceal, ensconce, hide1, secrete. Slang: plant, stash. See SHOW.
English dictionary for students. 2013.
