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mysterious
adjective as in obscure, puzzing, suggesting a mystery
Strongest matches
baffling, cryptic, curious, dark, enigmatic, inexplicable, inscrutable, magical, mystical, mystifying, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, secretive, strange, unknown, weird
Weak matches
abstruse, alchemistic, arcane, astrological, cabalistic, covert, difficult, eldritch, enigmatical, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, insoluble, necromantic, occult, oracular, recondite, sphinxlike, spiritual, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknowable, unnatural, veiled
Example Sentences
As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors among the wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined.
The causes of neurodegenerative diseases are largely mysterious, but the current thinking is that they involve inflammation, a normal function of the immune system that is usually short-lived in response to infections or wounds.
He is forced to pursue a mysterious villain after being blackmailed into allowing a potentially dangerous package on board a Christmas Eve flight.
Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago, US and Chinese researchers have found.
A mysterious box arrives from Germany containing a rice cooker but no note.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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