ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsOoccult
ISEE/SSAThard
occult
Meaning: hidden from ordinary view or knowledge
occult in a sentence
How occult is used in real sentences:
The investigation exposed the occult influence of private donors on the vote.
Historians traced the reform to an occult circle of advisers absent from official records.
“Illness, she had learned, could be occult without being imaginary, and the body often concealed what a hurried examination expected to display.”
— from the passage The Clockmaker's Fever
Synonyms for occult
Other words for occult — concealed, covert and secret — carry the same meaning.
- concealed
- covert
- secret
Antonyms of occult
Words that mean the opposite of occult:
- evident
- open
- revealed
Where it comes from
From Latin occultus, meaning 'hidden or secret.'
Memory hook
OCCULT sounds like 'a cult': a secret group keeps its affairs occult.