Synonyms of mysteries

mysteries

noun

plural of mystery

as in enigmas

something hard to understand or explain

why my sister married that guy is still a mystery to my parents

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enigmas
• puzzles
• secrets
• riddles
• problems
• challenges
• conundrums
• matters
• whys
• mystifications
• puzzlements
• head-scratchers
• perplexities
• closed books
• troubles
• cases
• brainteasers
• posers
• stumpers
• knots

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mysteries

There’s much still to learn about this meteorite’s mysteries, says Anya Udry, a planetary scientist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who was not involved with the Science study. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026

An unassuming spinster settled in the English countryside, the majority of Miss Marple's mysteries have taken place right in her own backyard. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2026

But Le Mindu is hardly the only designer to have confronted his own fears of death through fashion—designers have long used this medium to wrestle with what is paradoxically both life’s only guarantee and one of its greatest mysteries. — Livia Caligor, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026

On their romantic adventure, Spencer, 26, and Jupe, 21, lean into the thrill of young love and the excitement of the mysteries that lie ahead. — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2026

But now, a trail of breadcrumbs strewn across multiple states has led investigators to consider whether the two mysteries have always been intertwined. — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

But genuinely funny moments are rare, badly outnumbered by done-to-death musings regarding the mysteries of being alive and torturous melodramatic moments in which Klara dully absorbs the severity of Josie’s illness and Chrissy’s sorrow. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Genres run from crime thrillers and detective mysteries to folklore horror, social and courtroom drama, and romance. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

Disasters punctuate this fall’s best mysteries… The return of pneumonic plague, the blob-like ooze of data centers, the revival of the rattail ’do—disasters seem to be looming around every corner right now. — Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026