English > mysterious: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Of an obscure nature. |
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| Examples | - "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"
- "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson
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| Synonyms | cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying |
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| Broader | inexplicable, incomprehensible | incapable of being explained or accounted for |
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| Spanish | críptico, desconocido, incomprensible, inescrutable, ininteligible, misterioso |
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| Catalan | críptic, desconegut, incomprensible, inescrutable, inintel·ligible, misteriós |
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| Nouns | mystery | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained |
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| Adverbs | mysteriously | in a cryptic manner |
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