mysterious
adjEtymology
From Middle English *misterius (implied in misteriusly), probably partly from Middle French mystérieux and partly from Latin mystērium + -ous. By surface analysis, mystery + -ous.
- derived from mystérieux
- inherited from *misterius✻
Definitions
Of unknown origin.
- He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
Having unknown qualities.
- Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
- God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
Difficult to understand.
- Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.
- Buttressed by clothes, walls and objects, there was the bourgeois family, the most mysterious institution of the age.
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Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
- Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.
The neighborhood
- synonymarcane
- synonymcryptic
- synonymenigmatic
- synonymill-defined
- synonyminenubilable
- synonymmysterial
- synonymmysterioso
- synonymmysterious
- synonymmystic
- synonymrunish
- synonymsibylline
- synonymsysterious
- antonymknown
- antonymunambiguous
- antonymunmysterious
- antonymwell-defined
- neighbormystery
- neighborambiguous
- neighborintriguing
- neighborvague
- neighborstrange
- neighborunknown
- neighborUnknown intent
- neighborsphinxlike
- neighborUnknown geography
- neighborchartless
- neighborpathless
- neighbortrackless
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mysterious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mysterious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at mysterious
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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