Word Finder - mysterious

definition

Of unknown origin.

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He received a mysterious phone call this morning.

synonyms

• untraceable

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Having unknown qualities.

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Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.

synonyms

• esoteric
• uncertain
• undefined

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Difficult to understand.

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Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.

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Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.

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Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.

They still had something mysterious and exciting to explore.

Stepping around the horse, he disappeared down that mysterious pathway.

And what did the mysterious stranger look like?

She is no more mysterious and complex than any other person.

He hadn't yet discovered who Talal's mysterious man was.

Once again, the mysterious notebook took a back seat to the more pedestrian happenings at the Ouray inn.

The vatic passages in the Bible are often very mysterious.

The chimera is a mysterious mythical creature, only a fable.

Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.

Fred displayed a tad more interest in the mysterious find than the prior evening.

Fred called after him, your mysterious buddy called again, twice.

As if this action had some mysterious and menacing significance, the workmen surrounding the publican paused in indecision.

This is an intimate and sometimes mysterious process.

Along with this affirmation, the Church of Rome (if less decisively) has adopted the limitations of the Thomist theory by the condemnation of " Ontologism "; certain mysterious doctrines are beyond reason.

There is, however, nothing novel or mysterious about it.

But the mysterious has another face.

Dean reluctantly explained Fred O'Connor's idea about the newspaper subscription and the fact that a paper had been sent to Scranton to a somewhat mysterious occupant.

As Dalton said, "The doctrine of definite proportions appears mysterious unless we adopt the atomic hypothesis."

The strange contrast between the succession of dynasties and kings cut off by assassination in the northern kingdom, ending in the tragic overthrow of 721 B.C., and the persistent succession through three centuries of the seed of David on the throne of Jerusalem, as well as the marvellous escape of Jerusalem in 701 B.C. from the fate of Samaria, must have invested the seed of David in the eyes of all thoughtful observers with a mysterious and divine significance.

Nicolas of Basel, the mysterious layman from whose visit Tauler dates his true religious life, seems to have been the chief organizing force among the Gottesfreunde.

In 1802 he published Reflections upon the State of Religion in Christendom, in which he attempted to explain and illustrate the mysterious foreshadowings of the Apocalypse.

During this time Rome was horrorstruck by the mysterious murder of the young duke of Gandia, and the bereaved pope mourned his son with the wildest grief.

They carry off children, leaving changeling substitutes, transport men and women into fairyland, and are generally the causes of all mysterious phenomena.

Similar myths are found in relation to the Finnish smith-god Ilmarinen, who made a golden woman, and the Teutonic Wieland; a belief in the magical power of metal-workers is a common survival from an age in which their art was new and mysterious.

The conception of the Unconscious, by which von Hartmann describes his ultimate metaphysical principle, is not at bottom as paradoxical as it sounds, being merely a new and mysterious designation for the Absolute of German metaphysicians.

Gowrie Palace was the scene of the mysterious "Gowrie" conspiracy against James VI.

A proof is the mysterious rapid extinction of savages the moment that their group-life is broken up; they are individually so many lost sheep, without self-reliance or initiative.

To the mob the mob-leader is mysterious in his power of bringing luck and salvation; to himself also he is a wonder, since he wills, and to !

One of the chairs pushed back from the table, and this was so astonishing and mysterious that Dorothy was almost tempted to run away in fright.

Even people who know her fairly well have written in the magazines about Miss Sullivan's "mysterious telegraphic communications" with her pupil.

And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits...

Evidently for them "the marshal" represented a very high and rather mysterious power.

But what is this mysterious smoke coming out of the volcano?

For centuries, the mysterious half-human, half-aquatic creatures have captured the hearts of mortals.

If your children are captivated by the mysterious and rebellious nature of pirates and the romance of the high seas, these crafts will be sure to capture their imaginations.

In the TV commercials, Erin will often encounter a "mysterious stranger," whose name is Erik.

If you prefer to keep things dark and mysterious, this set offers you the chance.

In the UK, the band is seen as ultra cool and hip and as embodying some kind of mysterious Deep South gothic persona - Deliverance in drain pipe jeans and thrift shop cool t-shirts.

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley - The mysterious Gnarls Barkley brings you soul for the 21st century, with nods to, well, just about every other genre your little heart desires along the way.

Mike Morrell specializes in audio, attempting to use the latest technology to capture sounds from the mysterious creatures the team is investigating.

Dawn was created from the essence of Buffy's blood as a human hiding place for a mysterious "Key" that could open Hell dimensions.

Goa'uld had both great powers and advanced technology, much of the technology pirated from the mysterious Ancients.

Mulder is, if not credulous, at least more open to accepting unconventional explanations for mysterious phenomena than Scully, who persistently fights to find a 'logical' explanation.

The White Witch captures and bewitches the youngest boy, Edmund, and it is up to the other three, abetted by the mysterious lion called Aslan, to find and rescue him.

Lucas' 'Force' as a concept is only mysterious and 'other' sounding to people of Western cultures.

Add one disgruntled former girlfriend and various mysterious middle-eastern types to the blend, and Indiana clearly has his work cut out for himself.

His mother, to the casual eye, would appear to be severely disturbed; paranoid, hiding from mysterious stalkers, her care devolves on her young son, who is aware that something is just 'not right' with his fragile mother.

Since days of old, important warriors bore important weapons; these weapons were unique to them, often forged under mysterious or magical circumstances, or came to the bearer in unusual, often magical ways.

And hovering over her is a mysterious presence...

Starting with careful and accurate observations on facts concerning the mysterious properties of amber and the lodestone, Gilbert laid the foundations of modern electric and magnetic science on the true experimental and inductive basis.