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mysterious
[ mi-steer-ee-uhs ]
adjective
- full of, characterized by, or involving mystery:
a mysterious occurrence.
- implying or suggesting a mystery:
a mysterious smile.
- of obscure nature, meaning, origin, etc.; puzzling; inexplicable:
a mysterious inscription on the ancient tomb.
Synonyms: impenetrable, enigmatic, incomprehensible, unintelligible, unfathomable
mysterious
/ mɪˈstɪərɪəs /
adjective
- characterized by or indicative of mystery
- puzzling, curious, or enigmatic
Derived Forms
- mysˈteriously, adverb
- mysˈteriousness, noun
Other Words From
- mys·teri·ous·ly adverb
- mys·teri·ous·ness noun
- quasi-mys·teri·ous adjective
- quasi-mys·teri·ous·ly adverb
- unmys·teri·ous adjective
- unmys·teri·ous·ly adverb
- unmys·teri·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of mysterious1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.
Perhaps the mysterious Martian methane, and its strange fluctuations, are part of that story.
That reactivity paradoxically is what makes its sudden coming and going mysterious.
Part of that was due to the elimination of the Mysterious Man.
Like Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.
The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.
Lawrence handed the General the mysterious message and Schofield read it with a darkened brow.
This short interval had more than sufficed for De Lucenay's mysterious operations.
After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.
Between each group of figures the face of the rock was scored with mysterious signs and rudely limned weapons of war and chase.
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