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- Dictionaryenigma/ɪˈnɪɡmə/
noun
- 1. a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand: "Madeleine was still an enigma to him"
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ENIGMA definition: 1. something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely: 2. something that…. Learn more.
The meaning of ENIGMA is something hard to understand or explain. How to use enigma in a sentence. Did you know? Are you an enigma? Synonym Discussion of Enigma.
ENIGMA meaning: 1. something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely: 2. something that…. Learn more.
a person of puzzling or contradictory character: To me he has always been an enigma, one minute completely insensitive, the next moved to tears. a saying, question, picture, etc., containing a hidden meaning; riddle.
Definitions of enigma. noun. something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained. synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret. see more. see less. type of: perplexity. trouble or confusion resulting from complexity.
If you describe something or someone as an enigma, you mean they are mysterious or difficult to understand. There have been whole books written about him, and still he remains an enigma. American English : enigma / ɪˈnɪgmə /
1. a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation. 2. a person of puzzling or contradictory character. 3. a saying, picture, etc., containing a hidden meaning; riddle. [1530–40; < Latin aenigma < Greek aínigma < ainik- (s. of ainíssesthai to speak in riddles, derivative of aînos fable)]
