Enigmatic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enigmatic \E`nig*mat"ic\ (?; 277), Enigmatical
  \E`nig*mat"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]nigmatique.]
     Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or
     accounted for; darkly expressed; not clear to the
     understanding; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer;
     I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatical comment until


     much later; prophetic texts so enigmatical that their meaning
     has been disputed for centuries.
  
     Syn: dark, obscure, puzzling.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enigmatic
       adj 1: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning
              of that enigmatic comment until much later";
              "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has
              been disputed for centuries" [syn: {enigmatical}, {puzzling}]
       2: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular
          sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests
          might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: {oracular}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "enigmatic":
     able, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, arcane, baffling,
     beguiling, bewildering, bothering, cabalistic, censored,
     classified, close, closed, concealed, confounding, confusing,
     cryptic, dark, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting,
     disturbing, embarrassing, equivocal, equivocatory, esoteric,
     exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating,
     hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, incalculable, incognizable,
     incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, intricate, ironic,
     latent, marvelous, miraculous, multivocal, mysterious, mystifying,
     obscure, occult, outlandish, passing strange, perplexing,
     perturbing, phenomenal, polysemantic, polysemous, problematic,
     prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, restricted, riddling,
     sealed, secret, sensational, smothered, sphinxlike, stifled,
     strange, striking, stupendous, suppressed, top secret, ulterior,
     unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, unbreatheable,
     uncertain, uncharted, unclassified, under security, under wraps,
     undisclosable, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered,
     undivulgable, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed,
     unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified,
     unimaginable, uninvestigated, unique, unknowable, unknown,
     unperceived, unplumbed, unprecedented, unrevealable, unrevealed,
     unspoken, unsuspected, untellable, untold, untouched, unutterable,
     unuttered, unwhisperable, upsetting, virgin, wonderful, wondrous