mysterious : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mysterious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mysterious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mysterious adj of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" Synonym(s): cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" Synonym(s): mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mysterious \Myste"rious\, a. [F. myst[8a]rieux. See 1st {Mystery}.] Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible. God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms. --Milton. Syn: Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic; enigmatical; unintelligible; incomprehensible.