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. Mickey Mehta:

   Life can only happen between the past i.e. the history and the future i.e. the mystery. Both these are non-existential, thus insignificant. Between history and mystery lies now, let it be capitalized, seed your life every moment and get Mickeymized.

2. Kimmie Ng:

   It is honestly the question that keeps me up at night because it really right now is a mystery.

3. Primo Levi:

   The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

4. Nichole Andler:

   It really is a mystery, we know it has been out there awhile because the stock was buried in dirt. But we do not know for how exactly how long.

5. Charles Kilpatrick:

   What massive stars do right before they explode is a big unsolved mystery, it's rare to see this kind of star right before it explodes into a supernova.