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mystery
noun as in puzzle, secret
Strong matches
abstruseness, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, grabber, inscrutability, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, puzzlement, rebus, rune, sphinx, stickler, stumper, teaser, twister, whodunit, why
Example Sentences
Kupp, a father of three, said there is no mystery why McVay enthusiastically shares fatherhood experiences.
Their single-cell genomics data has also been shared as a resource for scientists around the world, quickly garnering excitement for its answers to this long-standing mystery in evolution.
How a live bullet got into the gun remains a mystery.
"Getting more parks and trees into cities is complicated work, and I realised that a simple metric could take the mystery out of it and set a proper benchmark based on evidence," he said.
"His sexiness, his mystery, his ruthlessness - it's all there in a few notes," he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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