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Arcane

/ɑɹˈkeɪn/

Understood by only a few.

📖 Definitions of "Arcane"

adjective
  1. 1

    Understood by only a few.

    "arcane rituals"

  2. 2

    (by extension) Obscure, mysterious.

    "arcane details"

  3. 3

    Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.

  4. 4

    Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

    "An arcane law"

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