Another word for mysterious
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Adjective
Difficult to explain or understand
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Another word for mysterious
Modifier
Puzzling
- Present participle of confound.
- The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
- Difficult to understand or interpret; impenetrable:
- Impossible to account for; inexplicable:
- Free from accountability; not responsible:
- That cannot be dissolved:
- Difficult or impossible to solve or explain; insolvable:
- Difficult or impossible to explain or account for.
- Present participle of baffle.
- puzzling and frustrating
- Not previously known; unfamiliar:
- Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; not native:
- Out of the ordinary or difficult to account for; unusual or peculiar:
- confusing or puzzling
- bewildering
- Present participle of perplex.
- Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling:
- Present participle of puzzle.
- Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
- Time spent pondering something confusing.
Concerning powers beyond those supposedly natural
Not generally known
- Open to more than one interpretation:
- Doubtful or uncertain:
- Deficient in light; dark:
- So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct:
- Indistinctly heard; faint.
Synonym Study
- Mystic al or mystic applies to that which is beyond ordinary human understanding or perception in connection with religious rites or spiritual experience
- What is inscrutable is completely mysterious and altogether incapable of being searched out, interpreted, or understood the inscrutable ways of God
- Mysterious is applied to that which excites curiosity, wonder, etc. but is impossible or difficult to explain or solve a mysterious murder
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