mysterious

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  • Adjective:
    of an obscure nature
    having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

Word Origin

mysterious (adj.)
1610s, "full of mystery," from Latin mysterium (see mystery (n.1)) + -ous. Related: Mysteriously; mysteriousness. Earlier in same sense was mysterial (early 15c.), from Late Latin mysterialis.

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Example

1. He wanders through a mysterious world of arcane theology .
2. Some mysterious , indefinable characteristic sets him apart from all other men .
3. Politics and markets interact in mysterious ways .
4. Love is a mysterious and a complicated force .
5. So now back to that mysterious finger .

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