Definitions for arcane

arcane ar·cane

Spelling: [ahr-keyn]
IPA: /ɑrˈkeɪn/

Arcane is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in arcane (aacenr).

Definitions for arcane

adjective

  1. known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric:

Origin of arcane

1540-50; (Middle French) Latin arcānus, equivalent to arc(ēre) to shut up, keep (derivative of arca a chest, box) + -ānus -an

Examples for arcane

We met Bennett and arcane's teamsters, and as we expected they were already out of grub and no way to get anymore.

While they are arcane even in Georgia, they apparently are not without some small degree of influence.

The arcane pair of paragraphs are packed with the sort of yawn-provoking polysyllables that only a lawyer could love.

He is admirably intent on rescuing literature from the arcane rituals of US academia and restoring it to a wider audience.

Food stamps are the biggest and most expensive component of the farm bill—an arcane piece of legislation that sets farm policy.

The earth is tapped of its arcane energies, the very air yields to us its mysterious powers.

All those bloodthirsty tweets and arcane exhortations and now we find out you were an advertising executive—an ad exec!

arcane was quite of the same opinion, the saving of a week of hard and tiresome travel being in each case the deciding reason.

arcane was much pleased and laughed heartily when he saw no one was hurt.

arcane took a bucket of water back from camp and after drinking it and resting awhile the ox was driven down to the spring.

Word Value for arcane
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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