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mysteries

NOUN

puzzle, secret

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conundrum enigma problem question riddle secrecy subtlety thriller

STRONG

abstruseness charade chiller cliffhanger crux cryptogram difficulty grabber inscrutability mystification occult oracle perplexity poser puzzlement rebus rune sphinx stickler stumper teaser twister whodunit why

WEAK

brainteaser braintwister closed book inscrutableness mindboggler sixty-four-thousand-dollar question tough nut to crack

Antonyms

WEAK

known understanding

Example Sentences

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However, exactly how animals detect that field has remained one of biology's biggest mysteries.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

Better to preserve some mysteries in case you haven’t watched.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

For Cage, it’s a combination of its visual aesthetic and the moral ambiguity of the mysteries and illicit affairs in film noir that have made the genre endure among cinephiles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

“Living in the deepest corners of our vast cosmos or our mathematical constructs,” the authors write, are still-unsolved scientific mysteries, including dark matter and dark energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

I have a bookcase filled with all kinds of stories: mysteries, fantasy adventures, sci-fi.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day