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mysterious
adjective
mys·te·ri·ous
mi-ˈstir-ē-əs
Synonyms of mysterious
1
a
: of, relating to, or constituting mystery
the mysterious ways of God
b
: exciting wonder, curiosity, or surprise while baffling efforts to comprehend or identify : mystifying
heard a mysterious noise a mysterious stranger a mysterious plane crash a mysterious illness
2
: stirred by or attracted to the inexplicable
… to help a mysterious wizard … ward off the end of the world with blood sacrifices.—Robert Houston
mysteriousness
noun
Synonyms
arcane
cryptic
deep
enigmatic
enigmatical
impenetrable
inscrutable
mystic
occult
uncanny
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Examples of mysterious in a Sentence
the mysterious ways of nature
We heard a mysterious noise outside our tent.
He died under mysterious circumstances.
A mysterious illness has been spreading through the city.
There's something mysterious about that old woman.
Her behavior was very mysterious.
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The banker, shown from as a mysterious figure from a Yacht, will reveal their identity during the season finale later this spring.
—Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2024
The movie also centers on Adam’s blossoming relationship with his mysterious neighbor, Harry (Paul Mescal).
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
There wasn’t a mysterious unlisted YouTube video nor was there a week-long Spotify Premium exclusivity period nor were the new country songs locked away on TIDAL years at a time.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2024
The mysterious finger was discovered outside a Walmart in Sidney on Feb. 18, according to the Sidney Police Department.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2024
The anomaly that had motivated him was a mysterious resistance among electrons to a process known as thermalization.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
This cheesy 1988 teen slasher movie stars Betsy Russell as a cheerleader and Leif Garrett as her boyfriend who accompanies her to cheerleading camp, where a mysterious killer starts terrorizing the squad.
—EW.com, 26 Feb. 2024
The film, about two shaman, a feng shui master and a mortician who attempt to undo the mysterious events happening to a U.S.-based Korean family, grabbed $14.5 million between Friday and Sunday, representing a 77% share of the overall box office market.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
The recording quality was coarse, and the score was loudly amplified, a solo bassoon in its mysterious high register sounding like a pigeon being tortured.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
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mystery entry 1 + -ous, probably after Middle French mysterieux
First Known Use
1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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mysterious
adjective
mys·te·ri·ous
mis-ˈtir-ē-əs
: containing, suggesting, or presenting a mystery
mysterious noises
also
: difficult or impossible to understand
the mysterious ways of nature
mysteriously
adverb
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B2 strange, not known, or not understood: She's an actress whose inner life has remained mysterious, despite the many interviews she has given. He died in mysterious circumstances, and there is still a possibility that it was murder. Synonyms
cryptic
enigmatic
inscrutable
More examplesFewer examplesAll the rose bushes seem to be suffering from the same mysterious malady.She claims to have occult powers, given to her by some mysterious spirit.These mysterious creatures live at the bottom of the ocean.When I got home, I found a mysterious message sellotaped to the front door.She wondered who'd sent her the mysterious email.
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disarray
discombobulation
disordered
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muddle something up
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(Definition of mysterious from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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mysterious
Perhaps those mysterious mathematical symbols did mean something after all.
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It was full of a mysterious vigour, new forms, new possibilities.
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This is reminiscent of the extraordinary relationship which amputees develop with their artificial replacements, revealing a whole inner mysterious world of feeling and imagination.
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It is not the case that there is some mysterious essence of ownership that remains after all the authorized legal activities are subtracted from it.
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Many have speculated as to the mysterious nature of a wall that is soundproof in one direction and opaque in the other.
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For despite the vast accumulation of scientific knowledge in medical libraries, the body does, indeed, work in mysterious ways.
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Mysterious voices and mysterious meanings of lost contexts and circumstances!
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This opening passage stages a most curious scene, indeed, foregrounding the physician's own curiosity and initial inability to explain the mysterious silence of his friend.
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In occupying and exploiting the mysterious space of the sacred in our contemporary 'secular' world, the nation revitalises the profane.
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Adding and erasing marked points is another natural, more mysterious operation.
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But those few letters had a mysterious effect on me.
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The mechanisms that are hidden behind the word "salient" remain largely mysterious.
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The costume is mysterious in its poverty as well as in its flair for incoherent details.
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Even in the closed polling booth, they believed that authorities would use mysterious ways to know their choice.
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I liked the artefacts added by the time-stretching; they helped create new sounds resembling a sort of mysterious mechanised beast.
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神秘的事物，難以理解的事物，謎…
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神秘的事物，难以理解的事物，谜…
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misterioso, misterioso/osa [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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mysterious
adjective
Definition of mysterious
1
as in cryptic
being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain
the huge stone statues on Easter Island are ancient, mysterious, and haunting
Synonyms & Similar Words
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cryptic
enigmatic
mystic
uncanny
enigmatical
obscure
dark
deep
unexplainable
inscrutable
murky
mystical
ambiguous
vague
occult
arcane
impenetrable
confusing
shadowy
esoteric
metaphysical
fuzzy
supernatural
inexplicable
incomprehensible
unfathomable
unintelligible
darkling
unaccountable
unknowable
imponderable
puzzling
unanswerable
equivocal
perplexing
unsearchable
baffling
numinous
confounding
recondite
abstruse
bewildering
mystifying
disorienting
befuddling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
understandable
intelligible
obvious
apparent
unmistakable
clear
evident
plain
manifest
transparent
fathomable
unequivocal
unambiguous
straightforward
palpable
perspicuous
open-and-shut
patent
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2
as in ambiguous
having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning
the stranger's mysterious prediction
Synonyms & Similar Words
ambiguous
cryptic
dark
enigmatic
obscure
mystic
enigmatical
esoteric
murky
vague
unclear
inscrutable
questionable
opaque
nebulous
occult
elliptic
uncertain
arcane
deep
equivocal
Delphic
confusing
elliptical
weird
eerie
complicated
fuliginous
shadowy
uncanny
obscurant
inexplicable
double-edged
recondite
abstruse
fuzzy
incomprehensible
indistinct
faint
puzzling
hazy
shrouded
disguised
difficult
indirect
misty
invisible
masked
cloaked
eery
foggy
undefined
complex
perplexing
undetermined
concealed
baffling
unknowable
indecipherable
indefinite
intangible
muddy
clouded
dim
shaded
mystifying
indistinguishable
bewildering
unanswerable
inexact
cloudy
noncommittal
impenetrable
confounding
sphinxlike
unfathomable
obscurantic
impalpable
inappreciable
inexplicit
shadowlike
obfuscatory
circuitous
obtuse
befogged
roundabout
bedimmed
beclouded
obnubilated
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
obvious
clear
certain
plain
distinct
accessible
unequivocal
unambiguous
understandable
evident
intelligible
comprehensible
bright
strong
sure
legible
knowable
direct
nonambiguous
firm
exact
definite
defined
explicit
determined
fathomable
straightforward
visible
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pellucid
self-evident
self-explanatory
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024How to use mysterious in a sentenceSomething mysterious may help tip our minds from waking life into slumber.Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries | Elizabeth Landau | February 8, 2021 | Quanta MagazineBy all accounts, Riddler Nation had a lot of fun hunting for the mysterious numbers a few weeks back.Can You Randomly Move The Tower? | Zach Wissner-Gross | February 5, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightShe goes back to this mysterious place and then we get her ashes.How to Be Better at Death (Ep. 450) | Maria Konnikova | February 4, 2021 | FreakonomicsPlenty of questions remain about mysterious matter and forces, about the beginnings and the end of the universe, about how the science of the big meshes with quantum mechanics, the science of the very small.Einstein’s theory of general relativity unveiled a dynamic and bizarre cosmos | Elizabeth Quill | February 3, 2021 | Science NewsThis mysterious ability to hop into someone else’s head—heck, even just to admit that they’re conscious beings with their own minds—is dubbed the “theory of mind.”This Is Where Empathy Lives in the Brain, and How It Works | Shelly Fan | February 2, 2021 | Singularity Hub “Vicious pecking, avian hysteria, mysterious deaths, and even cannibalism” are the results, he writes.The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps the mysterious Martian methane, and its strange fluctuations, are part of that story.Methane on Mars: Life or Just Gas? | Matthew R. Francis | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat reactivity paradoxically is what makes its sudden coming and going mysterious.Methane on Mars: Life or Just Gas? | Matthew R. Francis | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPart of that was due to the elimination of the mysterious Man.Rob Marshall Defends ‘Into the Woods’ | Kevin Fallon | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the mysterious Man.Rob Marshall Defends ‘Into the Woods’ | Kevin Fallon | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodLawrence handed the General the mysterious message and Schofield read it with a darkened brow.The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnThis short interval had more than sufficed for De Lucenay's mysterious operations.Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 | VariousAfter all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettBetween each group of figures the face of the rock was scored with mysterious signs and rudely limned weapons of war and chase.Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairSee More ExamplesBritish Dictionary definitions for mysteriousmysterious/ (mɪˈstɪərɪəs) /adjectivecharacterized by or indicative of mysterypuzzling, curious, or enigmaticDerived forms of mysteriousmysteriously, adverbmysteriousness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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B2 strange, not known, or not understood: She's an actress whose inner life has remained mysterious, despite the many interviews she has given. He died in mysterious circumstances, and there is still a possibility that it was murder. Synonyms
cryptic
enigmatic
inscrutable
More examplesFewer examplesAll the rose bushes seem to be suffering from the same mysterious malady.She claims to have occult powers, given to her by some mysterious spirit.These mysterious creatures live at the bottom of the ocean.When I got home, I found a mysterious message sellotaped to the front door.She wondered who'd sent her the mysterious email.
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For the non-alphabetic mind they are magical devices pertaining to the paranormal and mysterious.
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Technology is no longer an aspirational goal for creative progress, but a tangible and mysterious relic of ancient civilizations.
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The catcher in the rye is famous for the intense and sometimes mysterious connection it makes with the adolescent boys who love it most.
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Engrossing doc pairs interviews with haunting reenactments of a woman's mysterious life and death.
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The mysterious function of eyelashes has been revealed at last -- thanks to science.
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Eels are among the planet's weirdest, most mysterious creatures, but it's hard to get people worked up about their endangerment.
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She says the meat industry's reluctance to be more transparent has made meat processing appear secretive, scary and mysterious to most meat eaters.
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There is still so much to be learned about the mysterious civilization that vanished, but one thing is now known.
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You would rather be investigating a mysterious rash than having a cocktail.
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She repeated conspiratorial allegations about mysterious deaths of people close to the former first lady that are staples of right-wing talk radio.
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神秘的事物，難以理解的事物，謎…
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神秘的事物，难以理解的事物，谜…
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misterioso, misterioso/osa [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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不思議な, 不可解な, 謎（なぞ）の…
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Britannica Dictionary definition of MYSTERIOUS
[more mysterious; most mysterious]
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strange, unknown, or difficult to understand
the mysterious ways of nature
We heard a mysterious noise outside our tent.
He died under mysterious circumstances.
A mysterious illness has been spreading through the city.
There's something mysterious about that old woman.
Her behavior was very mysterious.
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◊ Mysterious people are often interesting because many things are not known about them.
A mysterious stranger came to our door.
the movie's handsome and mysterious main character
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to talk or behave in a way that makes other people feel that you must have a secret
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He died mysteriously at the age of 32.
She smiled mysteriously.
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Definition of mysterious adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mysterious adjective /mɪˈstɪəriəs/ /mɪˈstɪriəs/
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difficult to understand or explain; strangeHe died in mysterious circumstances.the mysterious disappearance of an aircraftFate works in mysterious ways.the events that led up to her mysterious death by drowningA mysterious illness is affecting all the animals.The whole thing was very mysterious.Extra ExamplesA mysterious figure haunted the opera house.Friends can connect in a mysterious way without even speaking.This business is getting more and more mysterious.
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(of a place) seeming strange or secretThe gardens looked dark and mysterious in the twilight.
(especially of people) strange and interesting because you do not know much about them synonym enigmaticShe meets a mysterious stranger who offers to help her.Her last years remain somewhat mysterious.Extra ExamplesA mysterious young woman is living next door.She found the people mysterious and fascinating.The average teenager seems mysterious and somewhat aloof. (of people) not saying much about something, especially when other people want to know moreHe was being very mysterious about where he was going.Why are they being so mysterious? Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French mystérieux, from mystère ‘mystery’.See mysterious in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee mysterious in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishCheck pronunciation:
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