mysterious
Something that is mysterious has a secret-like quality that makes it hard to understand or define, like your mysterious answers that made your friends curious about what you were really up to.
A dark shadow skims across the surface of lake...a strange disease makes a city's inhabitants violently ill...a large, hairy creature is spotted wandering in the woods. These situations are all mysterious because we don't know their causes. You can see the word mystery in mysterious. A mystery is a hidden or secret thing, so something that is mysterious takes effort to understand, unless it is beyond our comprehension.
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having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
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of an obscure nature“"in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson”synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying
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Kambili and Jaja's life among the elite in Nigeria isn't so easy under the thumb of their oppressive father. When the country becomes mired in political turmoil, they are sent to stay with their aunt, where they learn a different way of life.
Here's an assortment of ambiguous words to describe situations and things that are not easy to understand. For more synonym lists, explore our Say What You Mean resources.
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