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Definition of mysterious:
- Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
Synonyms:
rich, strange, dark, surreptitious, swarthy, unaccountable, hole-and-corner, shady, knowledge, mystifying, qabalistic, mystical, opaque, hidden, kabbalistic, inscrutable, undercover, spiritual, dusky, inexplicable, sable, recondite, magic, unfathomable, unavowed, gloomy, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, esoteric, murky, ambiguous, sibylline, dismal, clandestine, arcane, cloak-and-dagger, black, underground, secret, confidential, occult, incomprehensible, unnatural, somber, magical, shadowy, thick, cabalistic, explain, cryptical, orphic, mystic, deep, privy, dim, ineffable, bass, transcendental, oracular, insoluble, numinous, cryptic, private, swart, strange, secluded.
- complex (part of speech: adjective)
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unintelligible (part of speech: adjective)
- enigmatic,
- baffling,
- mystifying,
- illegible,
- indecipherable,
- unclear,
- confusing,
- cryptic,
- unreadable
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uncertain (part of speech: adjective)
- debatable,
- moot,
- questionable,
- changeable,
- disputable,
- vague,
- uncertain,
- confused,
- arguable,
- precarious,
- unsure,
- contestable,
- deniable,
- ambivalent,
- controversial,
- unconvinced,
- tentative,
- undecided,
- insecure,
- deniable
Usage examples:
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Her father had been called away by some mysterious business, too late in the evening for her to make other arrangements.
- "The Sins of Séverac Bablon", Sax Rohmer. -
Then, you mysterious fellow, seeing all this so clearly, why do you suffer it to be so?
- "Julian Home", Dean Frederic W. Farrar. -
You are as mysterious as Miss Wynne; and have I not a right to know?
- "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker", S. Weir Mitchell.