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Definition of enigma in English: enigmanoun ɪˈnɪɡməɪˈnɪɡmə A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand. Madeleine was still an enigma to him Example sentencesExamples - His diaries record recurrent struggles to understand the enigma of his own personality, his spiritual emptiness and addictiveness.
- The script is slack and messy, in a way which does not suggest enigma or mystery - just the need for a couple more drafts.
- What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out.
- One critic has said the film is: an enigma, as difficult to like as it is to dismiss.
- And with each biographical effort to understand him, that enigma has become more, not less, obscure.
- The Dane is truly an enigma whose ever-changing fortunes are shrouded in mystery.
- Not that its mysteries will readily reveal themselves: one finds oneself rereading passages to crack its subtle enigmas, tantalised by the missing puzzle piece that lies just beyond all that is visible.
- Now, some of us know that Moss is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma, and that he's often referred to as not the most approachable of characters.
- In the first half of the novel, Kilroy creates the enigma, which she proceeds to unravel in the second half.
- It is often felt that death is an enigma, perhaps the ultimate mystery.
- A Gazette article earlier this year highlighted an enigma that has long puzzled me.
- Like this person was an enigma, a thousand puzzles beneath a vulnerable skin.
- And yet one of the many enigmas about this most enigmatic of men was how he could combine so obvious and genuine a love for his wife of 41 years with the endless affairs and betrayals which must have made her life a misery.
- It is in any case an enigma which neither one can explain properly nor one can understand properly.
- With the addition of diacritical points and vowel signs, the text of the Koran as we have it still presents a series of puzzles and enigmas begging for explanation.
- For understandable reasons, the pulmonary circulation remains an enigma to most doctors.
- The two of them were a mystery, an enigma that Zoë had promised herself she would solve someday.
- He was no longer the soldier, no longer the enigma, and no longer a mystery.
- His concept of political morality is not merely a paradox; it is indeed a conundrum wrapped in an enigma.
- After such a long struggle and the loss of her sons in unequal battles, she understands the enigma of life.
Synonyms mystery, puzzle, riddle, conundrum, paradox, problem, unsolved problem, question, question mark, quandary, a closed book informal poser, teaser, brain-teaser, stumper
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek ainigma, from ainissesthai 'speak allusively', from ainos 'fable'. An enigma is now a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand, but it was originally a riddle, or an obscure speech. The word came from Latin, based on Greek ainissesthai, ‘to speak allusively’. See also riddle. One of the codes broken by the codebreakers at Bletchley during the Second World War was known as Enigma.
Definition of enigma in US English: enigmanouniˈniɡməɪˈnɪɡmə A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Madeleine was still an enigma to him Example sentencesExamples - And with each biographical effort to understand him, that enigma has become more, not less, obscure.
- The Dane is truly an enigma whose ever-changing fortunes are shrouded in mystery.
- For understandable reasons, the pulmonary circulation remains an enigma to most doctors.
- It is in any case an enigma which neither one can explain properly nor one can understand properly.
- With the addition of diacritical points and vowel signs, the text of the Koran as we have it still presents a series of puzzles and enigmas begging for explanation.
- He was no longer the soldier, no longer the enigma, and no longer a mystery.
- Now, some of us know that Moss is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma, and that he's often referred to as not the most approachable of characters.
- And yet one of the many enigmas about this most enigmatic of men was how he could combine so obvious and genuine a love for his wife of 41 years with the endless affairs and betrayals which must have made her life a misery.
- A Gazette article earlier this year highlighted an enigma that has long puzzled me.
- It is often felt that death is an enigma, perhaps the ultimate mystery.
- After such a long struggle and the loss of her sons in unequal battles, she understands the enigma of life.
- What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out.
- Like this person was an enigma, a thousand puzzles beneath a vulnerable skin.
- His concept of political morality is not merely a paradox; it is indeed a conundrum wrapped in an enigma.
- Not that its mysteries will readily reveal themselves: one finds oneself rereading passages to crack its subtle enigmas, tantalised by the missing puzzle piece that lies just beyond all that is visible.
- The script is slack and messy, in a way which does not suggest enigma or mystery - just the need for a couple more drafts.
- His diaries record recurrent struggles to understand the enigma of his own personality, his spiritual emptiness and addictiveness.
- The two of them were a mystery, an enigma that Zoë had promised herself she would solve someday.
- One critic has said the film is: an enigma, as difficult to like as it is to dismiss.
- In the first half of the novel, Kilroy creates the enigma, which she proceeds to unravel in the second half.
Synonyms mystery, puzzle, riddle, conundrum, paradox, problem, unsolved problem, question, question mark, quandary, a closed book
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek ainigma, from ainissesthai ‘speak allusively’, from ainos ‘fable’. |