| 单词 | esoteric |
| 释义 | esoteric (once / 4614 pages) adj Pssst... do you know the secret handshake? If you haven't been brought into the inner circle of those with special knowledge, esoteric things will remain a mystery to you. In the olden days, achieving esoteric knowledge meant getting initiated into the mystical arts, learning secrets unknown to regular folks. Now when a subject is called esoteric it's usually something not so mystical but still hard to penetrate: financial accounting might seem esoteric for people who get easily stumped filling out their tax forms. Americans might find the sport of cricket to be esoteric, but the rules of baseball can be just as impenetrable to outsiders. The infield fly rule? Totally esoteric. WORD FAMILYesoteric: esoterically USAGE EXAMPLESSleep technology products range from the basic app to the esoteric. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) You become the conductor of a lavish, esoteric fireworks display, warm and unforgettable. The New Yorker(Dec 24, 2016) In any razor-thin voting outcome, it’s easy and fun to cite oddball or esoteric factors and claim they “decided” the race. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) adj confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories Syn|Ant abstruse, deep, recondite difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge arcanerequiring secret or mysterious knowledge cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibyllinehaving a secret or hidden meaning mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secrethaving an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding privateconfined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy exoteric suitable for the general public publicnot private; open to or concerning the people as a whole |
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