Entry Word: mystic

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers <the notion that a cat has nine lives is based upon the belief that nine is a mystic number>

Synonyms magic, magical, occult, weird

Related Words bewitched, enchanted, spellbound; bewitching, charming, conjuring, enchanting, wiling; awesome, extraordinary, marvelous (or marvellous), wondrous; divining, forecasting, foreknowing, foreseeing, foretelling, fortune-telling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying, soothsaying

Near Antonyms commonplace, ordinary, unremarkable

2 being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain <the belief that there are mystic forces at work here> — see mysterious 1
3 having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning <mystic prophesies that are never understood until it is too late> — see obscure 1