[syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mysterious \Mys*te"ri*ous\, a. [F. myst[`e]rieux. See 1st
Mystery.]
Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult
or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not
revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
[1913 Webster]
God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied,
Thought in mysterious terms. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic;
enigmatical; unintelligible; inexplicable;
incomprehensible.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mysterious
adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is
written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep
dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence";
"in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim
origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally
mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic,
cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious,
mystifying]
2: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to
the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious
symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the
secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious,
mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
184 Moby Thesaurus words for "mysterious":
able, abstruse, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, anagogic,
arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, baffling, beclouded,
bewildering, bizarre, blind, bothering, buried, cabalic,
cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, clouded,
concealed, confounding, confusing, covered, covert, cryptic,
curious, dark, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting,
disturbing, eclipsed, eerie, embarrassing, enigmatic,
enwrapped in mystery, equivocal, equivocatory, esoteric,
extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, furtive, hermetic, hid,
hidden, hush-hush, hypernormal, hyperphysical, impenetrable,
in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings,
incalculable, incognizable, incommunicado, incomprehensible,
indefinable, inexplicable, inextricable, inscrutable, insoluble,
insolvable, intricate, ironic, latent, metaphysic, multivocal,
mystic, mystical, mystifying, numinous, obfuscated, obscure,
obscured, occult, otherworldly, perplexing, perturbing,
polysemantic, polysemous, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal,
pretersensual, problematic, psychic, puzzling, recondite,
restricted, sealed, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered,
smothered, spiritual, stifled, strange, superhuman, supernatural,
supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual,
suppressed, supramundane, supranatural, theosophical, theosophist,
top secret, transcendental, transmundane, ulterior, unaccountable,
unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, unbreatheable,
uncanny, uncertain, uncharted, unclassified, unclear, undefinable,
under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security,
under wraps, underground, undisclosable, undisclosed,
undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulgable, undivulged, unearthly,
unexplainable, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar,
unfathomable, unfathomed, ungraspable, unguessed, unheard,
unheard-of, unhuman, unidentified, unintelligible, uninterpretable,
uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown, unperceived, unplumbed,
unrevealable, unrevealed, unsolvable, unspoken, unsuspected,
untellable, untold, untouched, unutterable, unuttered,
unwhisperable, unworldly, upsetting, virgin, weird,
wrapped in clouds