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Definition of mystical :
1. Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.
2. Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
Synonyms:
mystifying, unfathomable, occult, unavowed, cloak-and-dagger, mystic, transcendental, enigmatical, cabalistic, hole-and-corner, unfathomed, secret, puzzling, cryptic, recondite, arcane, hush-hush, incomprehensible, esoteric, hugger-mugger, unknown, hidden, private, secluded, enigmatic, inscrutable, surreptitious, inexplicable, dark, clandestine, knowledge, mysterious, explain, obscure, abstruse, confidential, underground, cryptical, deep, privy, orphic, undercover
psychical (part of speech: adjective)
mental, supernatural, astrological, psychic, psychoanalytical, hypnotic, telepathic, hysterical, subliminal, psychological, spiritual, hallucinatory
Usage examples:
- Wolf suspected that the time was not far distant when yonder monarch at the window, who had won so many victories, would have a reckoning with the Smalcalds, the allied Protestants of Germany, and his vivid imagination surrounded him with an almost mystical power. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
- The idea of the mystical condition quite disappeared; one can neither have the firmness of keeping laws nor the fun of breaking them. - "Orthodoxy", G. K. Chesterton.
- Some of their dances have also a very peculiar mystical character about them, and these they very unwillingly exhibit in the presence of Europeans. - "Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2)", George Grey.