mysteriously
67
4.6
- adverb
- /mɪˈstɪəriəsli/
:
misteriosamente
- Mysteriously, our names have been omitted.
- disappear mysteriously
- appear mysteriously
- die mysteriously
But as I say, that bill has mysteriously disappeared.
- But as I say, that bill has mysteriously disappeared.
- So went to the bathroom, coughed up mysteriously come off.
- Let me go back first with the two that mysteriously disappeared.
Examples
-
She received a mysteriously anonymous letter with no return address.
-
Mysteriously, the lights flickered and went out during the storm.
-
According to breaking news reports, his plane mysteriously went down.
-
According to breaking news reports, his plane mysteriously went down.
-
But as I say, that bill has mysteriously disappeared.
-
Another member of our community has mysteriously vanished.
-
It was at this pivotal moment that Fovea mysteriously fell ill and died.
-
The sole heiress of the Waters fortune, estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars, she mysteriously disappeared 17 years ago this month.
-
Eighteen months ago, Kathy had mysteriously vanished from the campus of Reston University.
Fiction book (1995) -
His keys mysteriously vanished from the table just when he needed them.
Synonyms
∞
2.7
In a way you do not know how or why
5
6.9
In a way that is strange, surprising, and hard to explain
3
8.1
In a way that hides the true meaning
3
4.0
In a way that makes it hard to understand
2
7.7
In a way that is not clear and hard to understand
1
8.3
In a mysterious way that is hard to understand
1
8.4
In a way that is very surprising and hard to understand
1
6.9
In a way that people cannot understand
1
8.2
In a confusing way that makes something hard to understand
1
9.6
In a way that hides what someone feels and is hard to understand
1
7.9
In a way that is hard to understand
1
7.9
In a way that makes something hard to understand
1
8.4
In a way that is very confusing and hard to understand
1
6.1
In a way that is confusing and hard to understand
Antonyms
How Mysterious
Surface Forms
Morphology
mysteriously = mysterious (transparent) = mystery + ious + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the clear adjective 'mysterious', which itself transparently relates to 'mystery'.
Etymology
Mysteriously comes from the word mystery, which goes back to an old Greek word mysterion meaning 'secret' or 'hidden'. So, when something happens mysteriously, it happens in a secret or hard-to-understand way.