Mysterious

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being a religious mystery.
  • adjective. Arousing wonder or curiosity, especially by being difficult to explain or understand.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Partaking of or containing mystery; obscure; not revealed or explained; unintelligible.
  • Expressing, intimating, or implying a mystery: as, a mysterious look; his manner was very mysterious and important.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of unknown origin
  • adjective. Having unknown qualities
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
  • adjective. of an obscure nature
  • Word Usage
    "I must frankly admit, however, that, either owing to the derangement of my nerves, or my new impressions in my new lodgings, or my recent melancholy, I gradually began at dusk to sink into that condition which is so common with me now at night in my illness, and which I call mysterious horror."
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