Mysterious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           God at last
           To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied,
           Thought in mysterious terms.             --Milton.
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     Syn: Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic;
          enigmatical; unintelligible; inexplicable;
          incomprehensible.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mysterious
       adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written
              without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark
              secret"; "the inscrutible 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}, {mystifying}]
       2: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to
          the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding;
          "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake";
          "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn:
           {mystic}, {mystical}, {occult}, {secret}, {orphic}]

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

  184 Moby Thesaurus words for "mysterious":
     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