mysterious
IPA: mɪstˈɪriʌs
adjective
- Of unknown origin.
- Having unknown qualities.
- Difficult to understand.
- Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
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Examples of "mysterious" in Sentences
- The origin of the name is mysterious.
- The mysterious car follows the train.
- The animal embodied mysterious colors.
- The birth of the Pandavas is also mysterious.
- England moves in mysterious ways when it comes to Bank Holiday Weekends.
- Ability to know this model and rule constitutes what we call the mysterious excellence (of a governor).
- In 185 A.D., Chinese astronomers witnessed what they called a mysterious "guest star" that appeared in the sky and lingered for about eight months.
- Reinhard Kala Gertze, a Swapo member in training for a foreign affairs position in the movement, was arrested in 1983 and taken to what he described as a mysterious place.
- Western diplomats walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after he questioned what he called the "mysterious September 11 incident" during his fiercely anti-American diatribe.
- He had therefore made up his mind to watch the motions of _Cooleen Bawn_, and he would have included Reilly in his surveillance were it not that Lanigan informed him of what he termed the mysterious disappearance of the under-gardener.
- Mass walkout at UN as Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raises 9/11 'mystery' THE Iranian President has sparked a mass walkout of diplomats at the UN after attacking Western powers over the Holocaust and 9/11, which he called a "mysterious incident".
- I must frankly admit, however, that, either owing to the derangement of my nerves, or my new impressions in my new lodgings, or my recent melancholy, I gradually began at dusk to sink into that condition which is so common with me now at night in my illness, and which I call mysterious horror.
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