mysterious
Origin of mysterious
1synonym study For mysterious
Other words for mysterious
Other words from mysterious
- mys·te·ri·ous·ly, adverb
- mys·te·ri·ous·ness, noun
- qua·si-mys·te·ri·ous, adjective
- qua·si-mys·te·ri·ous·ly, adverb
- un·mys·te·ri·ous, adjective
- un·mys·te·ri·ous·ly, adverb
- un·mys·te·ri·ous·ness, noun
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How to use mysterious in a sentence
The “Daily Show” host was too focused on the mysterious, dark liquid that began streaming down both sides of Giuliani’s heavily perspiring face.
‘Our voting system is fine. ... It’s Rudy that’s broken’: Late-night hosts mock Giuliani’s ‘insane’ news conference | Andrea Salcedo | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostYou’ll certainly need a spoon to eat a zaazaa, but it straddles that mysterious line between a beverage and something to be eaten.
One of only a few photos of the mysterious GrayKey phone unlocking devices.
Decrypted: Grayshift raises $47M, Apple bugs under attack, video game maker hacked | Zack Whittaker | November 9, 2020 | TechCrunchLast New Year’s Eve, a hint of what the world might be in for in 2020 arrived in the form of an Associated Press story about 27 people in Wuhan, China, who had fallen ill with a mysterious strain of viral pneumonia.
50 million world Covid-19 cases: The biggest outbreaks, explained | Christina Animashaun | November 9, 2020 | VoxBy describing Park’s work, Conover opens a door into a mysterious world that most of us will never experience.
Exactly one month after the first straw goat was erected in Gävle, it was mysteriously burned to a crisp.
Last year, the Home Office said the dossier had mysteriously disappeared from the archives.
Victim: I Watched British MPs Rape and Murder Young Boys | Nico Hines | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany of the quotes are mysteriously sourced, apocryphal, or misattributed.
However, when the Red Army reached Königsberg in 1945, the Amber Room had mysteriously vanished.
Everyone she worked for would mysteriously die from the disease.
New York’s Scariest Night Out: The Ghosts, Rats, and Lunatics of ‘Nightmare New York’ | Justin Jones | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEither he continued to follow Carlson or he investigated the milk box which Carlson had mysteriously visited.
But the Transient Car bill, as it came to be called, began mysteriously to attract unprecedented attention.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandDown the long corridors the wind mysteriously whispered, rising in inarticulate moanings and woeful sighs, as of souls in pain.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowTalpers leaned forward mysteriously and fixed his animal-like gaze on Helen.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur ChapmanBy some means—understood only by the Creator—it has become mysteriously endowed with life.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. Ward
British Dictionary definitions for mysterious
/ (mɪˈstɪərɪəs) /
characterized by or indicative of mystery
puzzling, curious, or enigmatic
Derived forms of mysterious
- mysteriously, adverb
- mysteriousness, noun
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