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mystery
noun as in puzzle, secret
Strong matches
abstruseness, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, grabber, inscrutability, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, puzzlement, rebus, rune, sphinx, stickler, stumper, teaser, twister, whodunit, why
Example Sentences
“Murdaugh” chronicles the lives and many mysteries surrounding a prominent South Carolina family and legal dynasty.
PC Shaun Reeve said: "A police officer reported him appearing confused and being put on a bus to Glasgow but what happened to him after he arrived back on the mainland is still a mystery."
By merging mathematics with biology, researchers are beginning to uncover new layers of insight into one of humanity's oldest mysteries: how existence itself began.
To me, one of the most fascinating things about the Helicron is that it is a mystery.
The mystery has deepened this month as Spanish newspapers have splashed stories on their pages, saying police are treating Jonathan as an “investigado,” or person under investigation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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