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Webster 1913 Edition


Mysterious

Mys-te′ri-ous

,
Adj.
[F.
mystèrieux
. See 1st
Mystery
.]
Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied,
Thought in
mysterious
terms.
Milton.
Syn. – Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic; enigmatical; unintelligible; inexplicable; incomprehensible.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mysterious

MYSTE'RIOUS

,
Adj.
[See Mystery.] Obscure; hid from the understanding; not clearly understood. The birth and connections of the man with the iron mask in France are mysterious, and have never been explained.
1.
In religion, obscure; secret; not revealed or explained; hidden from human understanding, or unintelligible; beyond human comprehension. Applied to the divine counsels and government, the word often implies something awfully obscure; as, the ways of God are often mysterious.

Definition 2024


mysterious

mysterious

English

Adjective

mysterious (comparative more mysterious, superlative most mysterious)

  1. Of unknown origin.
    He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
  2. Having unknown qualities.
    Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
  3. Difficult to understand.
    Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.
  4. Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
    Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.

Hyponyms

  • long-mysterious

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