Definition of mysterious in English:
mysterious
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adjective
1Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.
‘his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances’- ‘a mysterious benefactor provided the money’
puzzling, strange, peculiar, curious, funny, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, mystifying, inexplicable, baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, uncanny, dark, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unexplainable, unfathomable, Delphic, sibylline, unaccountable, insoluble, obscureView synonyms- 1.1(of a location) having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy.
- ‘a dark, mysterious, windowless building’
- 1.2(of a person) deliberately enigmatic.
- ‘she was mysterious about herself but said plenty about her husband’
enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinxlike, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covertView synonyms
Pronunciation
Origin
Late 16th century from French mystérieux, from mystère ‘mystery’.
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