mystical

adjective

Definition of mysticalnext
as in mystic
impossible to prove, understand, or explain by either the senses or intelligence Survivors of near-death experiences sometimes report mystical visions of the afterlife.

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Recent Examples of mystical Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, the story follows around two best friends who get stranded in a mystical world. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026 All of these people and the others described mystical, life-changing, extraordinary experiences. — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026 Her mystical encounters with the divine through the natural world are reminiscent of poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver. — Amy Cannon, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 Each visitor exists morosely within their own screen or box, like all of us in iPhone-land, yearning for that mystical love connection. — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mystical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystical
  1. mystic
  2. psychic
  3. uncanny
  4. mysterious
  5. unexplainable
  6. supernatural
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  • Two translations—of poems by the Indian mystic Mirabai and the contemporary Romanian poet Radu Vancu—seek to inhabit and transcend the history that holds up the present.
    — Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Rumi is also the name of a very famous 13th-century Persian poet and mystic.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of mystic
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  • We’re not immersed in any of the procedural’s dangers, its uncertainties, its suspense, its psychic toll.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
  • What interested me most was the psychic cost of doing this work day in and day out.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of psychic
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  • Books that get called weird girl lit tend to deal in uncanny or dreamlike circumstances.
    — Abby McCarter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Phoebe Bridgers, in her first film role, pulls off an uncanny transformation as a decoy who bends lines of age and gender.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of uncanny
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  • Jesse Plemons is superb as his mysterious Kenny becomes a key player in all this, and there is also exemplary work from Emma D’Arcy as Lina, Digger’s ever-faithful assistant, and Sophie Wilde who watches over the action with a keen eye.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
  • But key details of this profound primordial transition, such as its threshold energy and density, have remained deeply mysterious.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of mysterious
Adjective
  • The movie has since become an unexplainable piece of comfort for a spooked generation.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Still, there was a wide and largely unexplainable range of geographical variety.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of unexplainable
Adjective
  • Nyla Innuksuk’s supernatural thriller In the Heart of the South is the latest Canadian indie aiming to reclaim indigenous storytelling and representation in movie theaters.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Over a span of nearly 20 years and thousands of different writers, the writing has not been contained to a single, cohesive canon, but everything is at least centered around this organization investigating supernatural anomalies from everyday items.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of supernatural

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“Mystical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystical. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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