Definition of mysterious in English:

mysterious

adjective mɪˈstɪərɪəsməˈstɪriəs

1Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.
his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances
a mysterious benefactor provided the money
Example sentencesExamples
- He was allowed to escape to the USA where he died in mysterious circumstances.
- He massages most parts of me and I'm refreshed, and contemplate mysterious scars on his body.
- There have also been a series of mysterious disappearances in the College.
- With so much of a mysterious haze surrounding the sport, I clearly needed more information.
- 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.
- The next day, everyone could talk of nothing but the mysterious woman at the ball.
- A young artist has created a mysterious object in a box for a corporate assignment.
- The plays are in French, which will make the plot all the more mysterious for some people.
- Come to think of it, I did hear a mysterious rustle coming from the kitchen.
- Two new forensic tests may have brought the mysterious case to a close.
- He said the police had been informed and were now investigating the mysterious disappearance.
- The stunning cover of this mysterious novel provides a clue to its structure.
- He's the uncle of the kid who got killed in Germany under mysterious circumstances by a far right group.
- Should a mysterious caller come on the phone and tell you he has planted a bomb in the building where you work, what would you do?
- The circumstances are, of course, more mysterious than first impressions imply.
- Death can only be thought of as mysterious when we try to understand it by imagining it.
- There is certainly nothing mysterious about the company's growing association with golf.
- Kenny has a mysterious benefactor who paid for his drama school training.
- When the mysterious visitor walks through the door, he hits him in the head with the plank of wood.
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. 1.1 (of a location) having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy.
  a dark, mysterious, windowless building
  Example sentencesExamples
  She spends the weekend in a mysterious castle.
  His destination was the ruins of Quirigua, one of the mysterious ancient sites that had been described by travellers, but about which little was yet known.
2. 1.2 (of a person) deliberately enigmatic.
  she was mysterious about herself but said plenty about her husband
  Example sentencesExamples
  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.
  This will all be done from a floating fortress, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory.
  Nitrus looked down at his charge, following Zinc back out of the mysterious room into the main complex.
  The roof has the same sort of mysterious but simple majesty of a big barn with six wooden trusses and exposed rafters.
  Synonyms
  enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert
  Military black

Derivatives

mysteriousness

noun

Then he comes out with it - a phrase that haunts me in its indecipherable mysteriousness.
Example sentencesExamples
- As a child, I liked the frightening part of the story, but also its mysteriousness.
- The mysteriousness can itself contribute to the effect of the poem.
- It has a striking mysteriousness, a haunting eeriness.
- ‘I wanted to retain a kind of magical mysteriousness,’ says Caple.

Origin

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

Rhymes

cinereous, deleterious, imperious, Nereus, serious, Tiberius

Definition of mysterious in US English:

mysterious

adjectiveməˈstirēəsməˈstɪriəs

1Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.
his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances
a mysterious benefactor provided the money
Example sentencesExamples
- In mysterious circumstances the gold disappeared leaving only its legend, and a map, behind.
- Two new forensic tests may have brought the mysterious case to a close.
- Kenny has a mysterious benefactor who paid for his drama school training.
- There is certainly nothing mysterious about the company's growing association with golf.
- The plays are in French, which will make the plot all the more mysterious for some people.
- When the mysterious visitor walks through the door, he hits him in the head with the plank of wood.
- The circumstances are, of course, more mysterious than first impressions imply.
- The next day, everyone could talk of nothing but the mysterious woman at the ball.
- He was allowed to escape to the USA where he died in mysterious circumstances.
- A young artist has created a mysterious object in a box for a corporate assignment.
- Death can only be thought of as mysterious when we try to understand it by imagining it.
- He said the police had been informed and were now investigating the mysterious disappearance.
- He's the uncle of the kid who got killed in Germany under mysterious circumstances by a far right group.
- The stunning cover of this mysterious novel provides a clue to its structure.
- There have also been a series of mysterious disappearances in the College.
- He massages most parts of me and I'm refreshed, and contemplate mysterious scars on his body.
- Come to think of it, I did hear a mysterious rustle coming from the kitchen.
- Should a mysterious caller come on the phone and tell you he has planted a bomb in the building where you work, what would you do?
- With so much of a mysterious haze surrounding the sport, I clearly needed more information.
- It'll explain all about this mysterious new boy that none of the girls knew about.
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
1. 1.1 (of a location) having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy.
  a dark, mysterious, windowless building
  Example sentencesExamples
  She spends the weekend in a mysterious castle.
  His destination was the ruins of Quirigua, one of the mysterious ancient sites that had been described by travellers, but about which little was yet known.
2. 1.2 (of a person) deliberately enigmatic.
  she was mysterious about herself but said plenty about her husband
  Example sentencesExamples
  The roof has the same sort of mysterious but simple majesty of a big barn with six wooden trusses and exposed rafters.
  Nitrus looked down at his charge, following Zinc back out of the mysterious room into the main complex.
  You could simply read all this as a hymn to growing up in a magical, deeply mysterious city.
  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.
  Synonyms
  enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert

Origin

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

单词	mysterious
释义	Definition of mysterious in English: mysterious adjective mɪˈstɪərɪəsməˈstɪriəs 1Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify. his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances a mysterious benefactor provided the money Example sentencesExamples He was allowed to escape to the USA where he died in mysterious circumstances. He massages most parts of me and I'm refreshed, and contemplate mysterious scars on his body. There have also been a series of mysterious disappearances in the College. With so much of a mysterious haze surrounding the sport, I clearly needed more information. 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. The next day, everyone could talk of nothing but the mysterious woman at the ball. A young artist has created a mysterious object in a box for a corporate assignment. The plays are in French, which will make the plot all the more mysterious for some people. Come to think of it, I did hear a mysterious rustle coming from the kitchen. Two new forensic tests may have brought the mysterious case to a close. He said the police had been informed and were now investigating the mysterious disappearance. The stunning cover of this mysterious novel provides a clue to its structure. He's the uncle of the kid who got killed in Germany under mysterious circumstances by a far right group. Should a mysterious caller come on the phone and tell you he has planted a bomb in the building where you work, what would you do? The circumstances are, of course, more mysterious than first impressions imply. Death can only be thought of as mysterious when we try to understand it by imagining it. There is certainly nothing mysterious about the company's growing association with golf. Kenny has a mysterious benefactor who paid for his drama school training. When the mysterious visitor walks through the door, he hits him in the head with the plank of wood. 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 location) having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy. a dark, mysterious, windowless building Example sentencesExamples She spends the weekend in a mysterious castle. His destination was the ruins of Quirigua, one of the mysterious ancient sites that had been described by travellers, but about which little was yet known. 1.2 (of a person) deliberately enigmatic. she was mysterious about herself but said plenty about her husband Example sentencesExamples 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. This will all be done from a floating fortress, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Nitrus looked down at his charge, following Zinc back out of the mysterious room into the main complex. The roof has the same sort of mysterious but simple majesty of a big barn with six wooden trusses and exposed rafters. Synonyms enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert Military black Derivatives mysteriousness noun Then he comes out with it - a phrase that haunts me in its indecipherable mysteriousness. Example sentencesExamples As a child, I liked the frightening part of the story, but also its mysteriousness. The mysteriousness can itself contribute to the effect of the poem. It has a striking mysteriousness, a haunting eeriness. ‘I wanted to retain a kind of magical mysteriousness,’ says Caple. Origin Late 16th century: from French mystérieux, from mystère 'mystery'. Rhymes cinereous, deleterious, imperious, Nereus, serious, Tiberius Definition of mysterious in US English: mysterious adjectiveməˈstirēəsməˈstɪriəs 1Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify. his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances a mysterious benefactor provided the money Example sentencesExamples In mysterious circumstances the gold disappeared leaving only its legend, and a map, behind. Two new forensic tests may have brought the mysterious case to a close. Kenny has a mysterious benefactor who paid for his drama school training. There is certainly nothing mysterious about the company's growing association with golf. The plays are in French, which will make the plot all the more mysterious for some people. When the mysterious visitor walks through the door, he hits him in the head with the plank of wood. The circumstances are, of course, more mysterious than first impressions imply. The next day, everyone could talk of nothing but the mysterious woman at the ball. He was allowed to escape to the USA where he died in mysterious circumstances. A young artist has created a mysterious object in a box for a corporate assignment. Death can only be thought of as mysterious when we try to understand it by imagining it. He said the police had been informed and were now investigating the mysterious disappearance. He's the uncle of the kid who got killed in Germany under mysterious circumstances by a far right group. The stunning cover of this mysterious novel provides a clue to its structure. There have also been a series of mysterious disappearances in the College. He massages most parts of me and I'm refreshed, and contemplate mysterious scars on his body. Come to think of it, I did hear a mysterious rustle coming from the kitchen. Should a mysterious caller come on the phone and tell you he has planted a bomb in the building where you work, what would you do? With so much of a mysterious haze surrounding the sport, I clearly needed more information. It'll explain all about this mysterious new boy that none of the girls knew about. 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 1.1 (of a location) having an atmosphere of strangeness or secrecy. a dark, mysterious, windowless building Example sentencesExamples She spends the weekend in a mysterious castle. His destination was the ruins of Quirigua, one of the mysterious ancient sites that had been described by travellers, but about which little was yet known. 1.2 (of a person) deliberately enigmatic. she was mysterious about herself but said plenty about her husband Example sentencesExamples The roof has the same sort of mysterious but simple majesty of a big barn with six wooden trusses and exposed rafters. Nitrus looked down at his charge, following Zinc back out of the mysterious room into the main complex. You could simply read all this as a hymn to growing up in a magical, deeply mysterious city. 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. Synonyms enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert Origin Late 16th century: from French mystérieux, from mystère ‘mystery’.
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