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单词 mysterious
释义

mysterious

/mɪˈstɪərɪəs /
adjective
1Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify: his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances a mysterious benefactor provided the money...
  • It'll explain all about this mysterious new boy that none of the girls knew about.
  • In mysterious circumstances the gold disappeared leaving only its legend, and a map, behind.
  • He was allowed to escape to the USA where he died in mysterious circumstances.

Synonyms

puzzling, strange, peculiar, curious, funny, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, mystifying, inexplicable, baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, uncanny, dark, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unexplainable, unfathomable, Delphic, sibylline, unaccountable, insoluble, obscure;
arcane, recondite, secret, esoteric, occult, cryptic, hidden, concealed, supernatural, mystical
1.1(Of a person) deliberately enigmatic: she was mysterious about herself but said plenty about her husband...
  • This will all be done from a floating fortress, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory.
  • That mysterious room always locked up half behind the school on the left is still there.
  • You could simply read all this as a hymn to growing up in a magical, deeply mysterious city.

Synonyms

enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert;
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Derivatives

mysteriousness

noun ...
  • ‘I wanted to retain a kind of magical mysteriousness,’ says Caple.
  • It has a striking mysteriousness, a haunting eeriness.
  • The mysteriousness can itself contribute to the effect of the poem.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French mystérieux, from mystère 'mystery'.

Rhymes

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