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From Middle French mystérieux mystery -ous
mysterious (comparative more mysterious , superlative most mysterious )
Of unknown origin .
Synonym: untraceable He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
Having unknown qualities .
Synonyms: esoteric uncertain undefined see also Thesaurus:mysterious Hyponyms: anonymous faceless unexplored unnamed long-mysterious Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
1780 William Cowper , “Light Shining out of Darkneſs ”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects [ ] To which are added Hymns [ ] [1] 252 :God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
Difficult to understand .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:incomprehensible Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious .
Deliberately evasive or enigmatic .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:covert Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.
of unknown origin
Afrikaans: misterieus
Albanian: misterioz (sq)
Arabic: غَامِض ( ḡāmiḍ )
Armenian: խորհրդավոր (hy) ( xorhrdavor ) , առեղծվածային (hy) ( aṙeġcvacayin ) , հանելուկային (hy) ( hanelukayin )
Asturian: misteriosu
Azerbaijani: müəmmalı (az) , əsrarəngiz əsrarlı
Basque: misteriotsu misteriozko
Belarusian: таямні́чы ( tajamníčy )
Bulgarian: таи́нствен ( taínstven )
Catalan: misteriós (ca)
Chinese:
Hokkien: 神奇 (zh-min-nan) ( sîn-kî )
Mandarin: 神秘 (zh) ( shénmì )
Czech: tajemný (cs) m záhadný (cs) m
Dutch: geheimzinnig (nl) , mysterieus (nl)
Esperanto: mistera
Estonian: salapärane
Finnish: salaperäinen (fi) , mystinen (fi) , outo (fi)
French: mystérieux (fr)
Galician: misterioso
Georgian: ფარული ( paruli ) , იდუმალი ( idumali )
German: mysteriös (de)
Greek: μυστήριος (el) ( mystírios )
Greenlandic: paasissaalluanngilaq
Hebrew: מִסְתּוֹרִי
Hindi: रहस्यपूर्ण ( rahasyapūrṇ ) , गूढ ( gūḍh )
Hungarian: titokzatos (hu) , rejtelmes (hu) , rejtélyes (hu)
Ido: misterioza (io)
Indonesian: misterius (id)
Irish: rúndiamhair
Italian: misterioso (it) , ignoto (it) m
Japanese: 神秘的な (ja) ( しんぴてきな, shinpiteki na ) , ミステリアスな (ja) ( misuteriasu na ) , 不思議な (ja) ( ふしぎな, fushigi na )
Khmer: អាថ៌កំបាំង ( ʼaat kɑmbang )
Korean: 신비(神秘)하다 (ko) ( sinbihada )
Latin: arcanus mysterius obscurus (la) , tectus (la) , mysticus secretus reconditus
Latvian: mīklains noslēpumains
Lithuanian: paslaptingas
Malay: penuh misteri
Maori: porehu
Mongolian: нууц далд ( nuuc dald )
Norman: mystéthieux
Occitan: misteriós (oc)
Persian: مبهم (fa) ( mobham ) , مرموز (fa) ( marmuz )
Polish: tajemniczy (pl)
Portuguese: misterioso (pt)
Romanian: misterios (ro)
Russian: таи́нственный (ru) ( taínstvennyj ) , зага́дочный (ru) ( zagádočnyj )
Sanskrit: गूढ (sa) ( gūḍhá )
Scottish Gaelic: dìomhair
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тајанствен загонетан
Roman: tajanstven (sh) , zagonetan (sh)
Slovak: tajomný záhadný
Slovene: skrivnosten (sl)
Spanish: misterioso (es)
Swahili: kidube
Swedish: mystisk (sv)
Tagalog: katakataka
Thai: ลี้ลับ ( lée láp )
Tibetan: མགོ་འཐོམ་ཡག ( mgo 'thom yag )
Turkish: gizemli (tr) , esrarlı (tr)
Turkmen: syrly
Ukrainian: таємни́чий ( tajemnýčyj )
Vietnamese: thần bí (vi) (神秘
Welsh: cyfriniol (cy) , rhiniol
Yiddish: מיסטעריעז ( misteryez )
having unknown qualities
Bulgarian: тайнствен (bg) ( tajnstven )
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: tajuplný
Dutch: geheimzinnig (nl) , raadselachtig (nl) , mysterieus (nl)
Finnish: salaperäinen (fi) , mystinen (fi)
Georgian: იდუმალი ( idumali )
German: rätselhaft (de)
Ido: misterioza (io)
Irish: rúnda
Latin: arcanus secretus occultus reconditus mysticus occultus tectus (la) , obscurus (la)
Latvian: noslēpumains mīklains
Malay: penuh misteri
Portuguese: misterioso (pt)
Russian: неизве́стный (ru) ( neizvéstnyj )
Scottish Gaelic: dìomhair
deliberately evasive or enigmatic
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