Synonyms for arcane
ɑrˈkeɪnar·cane

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1. arcaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   esoteric

2. arcaneadjective

   Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.

   Synonyms:
   esoteric

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1. arcaneadjective

   requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

   "the arcane science of dowsing"

   Antonyms:
   exoteric

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1. List of paraphrases for "arcane":

   esoteric, obscure, shadowy, mysterious

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1. Larry Sabato:

   The popular vote overwhelms the rules usually, but in these close elections, everyone pays attention to these arcane rules.

2. Donald Trump:

   We learned a lot about loyalty, we learned a lot about some very arcane rules in, obviously, both the Senate and in the House. So, it's been certainly, for me, it's been a very interesting experience.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   We shut down 10,000 jobs with the Keystone Pipeline here in the United States of America and then they permitted the Russian pipeline to continue to be built that will threaten the heart of Europe's energy infrastructure and of course you were referring to the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline, president Trump and our team were very clear about what we would do in response to cyber attacks. We changed. It's a pretty arcane idea, but we changed the NSPM, the rules that permitted us to respond to these attacks. I hope that the Biden administration will use the tools that we provided.

4. Charles Santiago:

   The need for effective regional action to combat the crisis is clear, yet our leaders have consistently failed to act, they hide behind the arcane and ultimately destructive policy of non-interference, repeating the demonstrably false claim that the Myanmar government's persecution of Rohingya is an 'internal affair'.

5. Ellen Staurowsky:

   To respond to the very, very slow steps toward progress that are being forced by these lawsuits, to impede that progress with the possibility of locking athletes into this arcane system that does not represent their interest, I think is deeply worrisome.