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- Dictionarymysterious/mɪˈstɪərɪəs/
adjective
- 1. difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify: "his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances" Similar Opposite
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Mysterious voices and mysterious meanings of lost contexts and circumstances! From the Cambridge English Corpus This opening passage stages a most curious scene, indeed, foregrounding the physician's own curiosity and initial inability to explain the mysterious silence of his friend.
The meaning of MYSTERIOUS is of, relating to, or constituting mystery. How to use mysterious in a sentence.
difficult to understand or explain; strange. He died in mysterious circumstances. Fate works in mysterious ways. A mysterious illness is affecting all the animals. The whole thing was very mysterious. (of a place) seeming strange or secret. The gardens looked dark and mysterious in the twilight.
All the rose bushes seem to be suffering from the same mysterious malady. She claims to have occult powers, given to her by some mysterious spirit. These mysterious creatures live at the bottom of the ocean. When I got home, I found a mysterious message sellotaped to the front door. She wondered who'd sent her the mysterious email.
Someone or something that is mysterious is strange and is not known about or understood. He died in mysterious circumstances. A mysterious illness confined him to bed for over a month. The whole thing seems very mysterious. He began to feel sympathy for this slightly mysterious man. A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.
Mysterious definition: full of, characterized by, or involving mystery. See examples of MYSTERIOUS used in a sentence.
Something that is mysterious has a secret-like quality that makes it hard to understand or define, like your mysterious answers that made your friends curious about what you were really up to.
1. involving or full of mystery: a mysterious phone call. 2. suggesting or implying a mystery: a mysterious smile. 3. puzzling; inexplicable: a mysterious inscription on an ancient tomb. mys•te′ri•ous•ness, n. syn: mysterious, inscrutable, mystical, obscure refer to that which is not easily comprehended or explained.
1 difficult to understand or explain; strange He died in mysterious circumstances. A mysterious illness is affecting all the animals.
MYSTERIOUS definition: 1. strange or unknown, and not explained or understood: 2. refusing to talk about something and…. Learn more.
