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mysterious
adjective as in obscure, puzzing, suggesting a mystery
Strongest matches
baffling, cryptic, curious, dark, enigmatic, inexplicable, inscrutable, magical, mystical, mystifying, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, secretive, strange, unknown, weird
Weak matches
abstruse, alchemistic, arcane, astrological, cabalistic, covert, difficult, eldritch, enigmatical, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, insoluble, necromantic, occult, oracular, recondite, sphinxlike, spiritual, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknowable, unnatural, veiled
Example Sentences
John Chu, a Senior National Curator at the trust, said the artist appeared both "swaggering" and "tentative" in the picture, with a "mysterious" shadow across his face.
What Torres dubs as “relaxed” green, “commercial-portrayals-of-joy” yellow, “lusty and ragey” red, “teenage” orange, “soft” beige and “mysterious” purple are all accompanied by playful examples of behaviors, objects and societal conditioning that represent each color.
It led with “Charlotte mayor scores primary re-election victory amid national backlash over gruesome train murder” and another breaking story: “Hellfire missile bounces off mysterious orb in stunning UAP footage shown to Congress.”
First is the palace; next is a mysterious aristocrat known only as the Griffin Warrior; then comes exploration of beehive-shaped burial mounds; and, finally, artistic production in provinces around Pylos.
In one photo of a yellow parachute in the air, he wrote: "Once upon a time, an intelligent, sharp-witted man they call 'mysterious' parachuted into my life."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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