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

   Synonyms:
   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. Subo Dong:

   ASASSN-15lh is the most powerful supernova discovered in human history, the explosion’s mechanism and power source remain shrouded in mystery because all known theories meet serious challenges in explaining the immense amount of energy ASASSN-15lh has radiated.

2. Read MoreHer husband:

   At 2 o' clock this morning, I received a call that shattered my life... Life is a deep mystery, there's no human being, no matter how wise they are who can say they understand life... Let us accept the mystery of life. We don't have any control of most things in life...

3. George Orwell:

   All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

4. Jan Cilliers:

   It's such a huge mystery why they went with these guys, we feel like they told the girls that they were going to some big after-party or something. Who knows what they told the girls to get them in the car.

5. Lee Berger:

   The discovery of a single skull of a child, in such a remote location within the cave system adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system, it is just another riddle among many that surround this fascinating extinct human relative.