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mysterious
mysterious [ mi stri əss ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. unknown: about whom or which little is known, but who or which excites considerable curiosity
a mysterious woman in a red coat
2. strange: difficult to understand or explain
the mysterious disappearance of the ship's crew
3. full of mystery: full of or suggesting mystery
The caves were dark and mysterious.
4. secretive: deliberately arousing curiosity by refusing to reveal something
Stop being so mysterious and tell us what you found out.
[Late 16th century. < French mystérieux< mystère 'mystery' < Latin mysterium (see mystery1)]

mysteriously adverb
mysteriousness noun
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