'Mysterious' definitions:
Definition of 'mysterious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]
adjective
Definition of 'Mysterious'
From: GCIDE
- Mysterious \Mys*te"ri*ous\, a. [F. myst[`e]rieux. See 1st Mystery.] Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible. [1913 Webster]
- God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic; enigmatical; unintelligible; inexplicable; incomprehensible. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mysterious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- able,
- abstruse,
- ambiguous,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- anagogic,
- arcane,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awing,
- baffling,
- beclouded,
- bewildering,
- bizarre,
- blind,
- bothering,
- buried,
- cabalic,
- cabalistic,
- censored,
- classified,
- close,
- closed,
- clouded,
- concealed,
- confounding,
- confusing,
- covered,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- curious,
- dark,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- dismaying,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- eclipsed,
- eerie,
- embarrassing,
- enigmatic,
- enwrapped in mystery,
- equivocal,
- equivocatory,
- esoteric,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- fey,
- furtive,
- hermetic,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hush-hush,
- hypernormal,
- hyperphysical,
- impenetrable,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- incalculable,
- incognizable,
- incommunicado,
- incomprehensible,
- indefinable,
- inexplicable,
- inextricable,
- inscrutable,
- insoluble,
- insolvable,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- latent,
- metaphysic,
- multivocal,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- mystifying,
- numinous,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- otherworldly,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- preterhuman,
- preternatural,
- preternormal,
- pretersensual,
- problematic,
- psychic,
- puzzling,
- recondite,
- restricted,
- sealed,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- sequestered,
- smothered,
- spiritual,
- stifled,
- strange,
- superhuman,
- supernatural,
- supernormal,
- superphysical,
- supersensible,
- supersensual,
- suppressed,
- supramundane,
- supranatural,
- theosophical,
- theosophist,
- top secret,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- ulterior,
- unaccountable,
- unapparent,
- unapprehended,
- unascertained,
- unbeknown,
- unbreatheable,
- uncanny,
- uncertain,
- uncharted,
- unclassified,
- unclear,
- undefinable,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under security,
- under wraps,
- underground,
- undisclosable,
- undisclosed,
- undiscoverable,
- undiscovered,
- undivulgable,
- undivulged,
- unearthly,
- unexplainable,
- unexplained,
- unexplored,
- unexposed,
- unfamiliar,
- unfathomable,
- unfathomed,
- ungraspable,
- unguessed,
- unheard,
- unheard-of,
- unhuman,
- unidentified,
- unintelligible,
- uninterpretable,
- uninvestigated,
- unknowable,
- unknown,
- unperceived,
- unplumbed,
- unrevealable,
- unrevealed,
- unsolvable,
- unspoken,
- unsuspected,
- untellable,
- untold,
- untouched,
- unutterable,
- unuttered,
- unwhisperable,
- unworldly,
- upsetting,
- virgin,
- weird,
- wrapped in clouds