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Definition of Mysterious
1. Adjective. Of an obscure nature. "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
Similar to: Incomprehensible, Inexplicable
Derivative terms: Inscrutability, Mystery
2. Adjective. Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. "The secret learning of the ancients"
Similar to: Esoteric
Derivative terms: Mystery, Mystic, Mystic, Occult, Occult
Definition of Mysterious
1. a. Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
Definition of Mysterious
1. Adjective. Of unknown origin ¹
2. Adjective. Having unknown qualities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mysterious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mysterious
Literary usage of Mysterious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"For opium is mysterious; mysterious to the extent, at times, of apparent
self-contradiction; and so mysterious, that my own long experience in its ..."
2. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"THE mysterious MESSAGE. A FTER attending to the albatross, Fritz left his -*"*-
mother and brothers examining the birds, and made me understand that he ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"mysterious NATURE OF THE ... the mysterious Triad, or Trinity" were agitated in
the philosophical and in the Christian schools of Alexandria. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... in vain efforts to learn the cause of these mysterious deteriorations. ...
probable origin of these mysterious losses, the real cause was not suspected. ..."
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