Thesaurus:mysterious

Thesaurus

mysterious

English

Adjective

Sense: having unknown qualities

Synonyms

• arcane    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cryptic
• enigmatic
• ill-defined
• inenubilable (formal, literary)
• mysterial (obsolete)
• mysterioso
• mysterious
• mystic
• runish
• sibylline
• systerious
• uncertain
• undefined
• undetermined

Antonyms

• known
• unambiguous
• unmysterious
• well-defined

Hyponyms

Unknown intent

• sphinxlike

Unknown geography

• chartless
• pathless
• trackless
• uncharted
• unexplored
• unmapped
• unnavigated
• unsurveyed
• untrodden

Unknown meaning

• arcane    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cryptic
• Delphic
• gnomic
• gnomical
• oracular

Unknown name or identity

• anonymous
• faceless
• nameless
• unidentified
• unnamed

Unknown origin

• nontrackable
• traceless
• untraceable
• untrackable

Unknown position

• lost
• unlocated

Hypernyms

• unknown    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• ambiguous
• intriguing
• vague    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:strange

Further reading

• “519. unintelligibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “525. concealment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “mysterious” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.