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mysterious
Synonyms and Antonyms of mysterious
- The huge stone statues on Easter Island are ancient, mysterious, and haunting.
arcane, cryptic, deep, enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mystic, occult, uncanny
dark, darkling, fuzzy, murky, obscure, shadowy, vague
imponderable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible, unsearchable
inexplicable, unaccountable, unexplainable
metaphysical, mystical, numinous, supernatural
baffling, befuddling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling
- the stranger's mysterious prediction
cloaked, concealed, disguised, masked, shrouded
cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinguishable, misty, muddy, shaded, shadowlike, shadowy, sphinxlike
indefinite, inexact, inexplicit, noncommittal, questionable, unclear, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, vague
impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable
eerie (also eery), uncanny, weird
baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, unfathomable
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