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

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Wiktionary3.0 / 7 votes

  1. mysterynoun

    Synonyms:
    roun

  2. mysterynoun

    Something secret or unexplainable; unknown.

    The truth behind the events remains a mystery.

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    roun

  3. mysterynoun

    Someone or thing with an obscure or puzzling nature.

    That man is a mystery.

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    roun

  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.

    Synonyms:
    roun

English Synonyms and Antonyms1.5 / 6 votes

  1. mystery

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

    Antonyms:
    apocalypse, disclosure, manifestation, revelation

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.1 / 7 votes

  1. mystery

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

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

Princeton's WordNet3.2 / 9 votes

  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"

    Synonyms:
    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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mysterynoun

    Synonyms:
    secret, enigma, riddle

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mysterynoun

    Synonyms:
    secret, enigma, riddle, intricacy, arcanum

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How to use mystery in a sentence?

  1. Erik Pevernagie:

    Journeys of love can be stunning and desperately exhausting. Love implies hope, but numerous are the impediments and the road may be covered with shipwrecking obstacles, since love is mystery, doubt, fear, pain and sometimes war or hell. ( " Those journeys of love" - "Cape of good Hope " )

  2. 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.

  3. Annita Lucchesi:

    There's a lot of coverage of this issue that describes it as a mystery, like we don't know what's happening, as if native women are kind of like a rabbit and a magic act, like we just mysteriously disappear and that's not real.

  4. Madelyn Esposito-Smith:

    Covid has incinerated sexual desire, couples that live together lost any intrigue and mystery working remotely side by side, and alone time to recharge became a precious commodity.

  5. Ben Neuman:

    This study is based on re-analysis of old data without any new data, it is going to take some new data to finally solve the mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2.


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