Synonyms for mystery
ˈmɪs tə ri, -trimys·te·ry

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1. mysterynoun

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2. mysterynoun

   Something secret or unexplainable; unknown.

   The truth behind the events remains a mystery.

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3. mysterynoun

   Someone or thing with an obscure or puzzling nature.

   That man is a mystery.

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4. mysterynoun

   A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.

   The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns.

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1. mystery

   Synonyms:
   cloud, cloudiness, concealment, hiding, obscuration, shrouding, veiling

   Antonyms:
   apocalypse, disclosure, manifestation, revelation

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1. mystery

   Synonyms:
   enigma, puzzle, obscurity, secrecy, veil, shroud, arcanum

   Antonyms:
   publication, solution, commonplace, truism, matter-of-fact

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1. mystery, enigma, secret, closed booknoun

   something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

   "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

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   arcanum, brain-teaser, whodunit, conundrum, riddle, secret, closed book, enigma, mystery story

2. mystery, mystery story, whodunitnoun

   a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie

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   enigma, secret, closed book, whodunit, mystery story

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1. mysterynoun

   Synonyms:
   secret, enigma, riddle

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1. mysterynoun

   Synonyms:
   secret, enigma, riddle, intricacy, arcanum

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1. List of paraphrases for "mystery":

   mysterious, mystère, riddle, enigma, puzzle, ambiguity, secret, vagueness, mystique, conundrum, obscurity, secrecy

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1. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Only once in a while you become aware of your intrinsic nature, with sudden bursts of empty spaces, without any effort on your part, you come home, rejoice every breath so deep and so soothing, you relax, unfocused, you skip into timelessness. This is the greatest mystery, the greatest gift of existence, without any identification to your senses, no clutches of your old patterns of mind. Few Glimpses of Heaven on the earth! I have experienced, have you?

2. President Yu-Taik Chon:

   Life here is a mystery to most of the world, but our students and our lives at school are not much different than others.

3. Thursday Browder:

   There was no mystery of who Natalia Veselnitskaya was. A simple Google search would have shown that she was the main in house lawyer for a high level Russian government official whose son was accused by the US DOJ of money laundering from the Magnitsky case in the US, either the people in that meeting didn't do any due diligence in advance or someone made an error in judgement agreeing to meet with her in the first place.

4. Clint Ehrlich:

   People who are hit by sanctions know where those sanctions are coming from, it's not a mystery for them why their economies are suffering, and they don't place the blame on their governments for the policies that led to the sanctions. They place their blame on the countries that are administering the sanctions.

5. Michael Madden:

   It's kind of a mystery why he called himself Ri Chol, there are several of these senior guys that are close to the center in Pyongyang and they use different names.