mystery
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈmɪstəri/
:
misterio
- Only a few foreigners had penetrated its mysteries.
- solve a mystery
- remains a mystery
- still a mystery
But that's what faith is and that's what mystery is really.
- But that's what faith is and that's what mystery is really.
- It's it's a big mystery, right, Who you are.
- Because what you have to understand is that mystery can create insecurity.
- There will always be great mystery surrounding matters of faith.
- What if we leave the mystery Hut alone?
- You don't want to lean into the mystery too much.
- There lies the mystery of so much.
- And he tells us that mysteries are, as he says, real.
- But yeah, blood debts, magic secrets, mystery, New Orleans.
- The world is full of these mysteries and you don't overcome them.
- That's that's I think the big mystery and we have some ideas.
Examples
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I'm here to talk about the wonder and the mystery of conscious minds.
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The disappearance of the ancient artifact remains a fascinating mystery that historians are eager to solve.
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Explore the ancient mystery with this video.
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There will always be great mystery surrounding matters of faith.
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Sounds like a fun mystery for a boy detective.
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No matter how deeply I looked, there was still a mystery, and there always would be.
Fiction book (1990) -
And this time there was a mystery that needed solving.
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So now the big mystery is, what did the FBI find?
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Time will solve that mystery.
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As a result, Lake Chad may soon disappear entirely, its whereabouts a mystery to future generations.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
41
6.1
Something you do not know or cannot identify, for example a variable in math
33
8.1
A person or thing that is mysterious and hard to understand
4
7.7
A problem that is hard to understand or solve
1
9.7
Something or someone that is very mysterious and hard to understand
A thing that people cannot understand or explain
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
4
7.3
Food whose type or where it comes from you cannot tell, often served in cafeterias
- Literature
1
9.9
A play from the Middle Ages that tells Bible stories, often about Jesus, performed for people
- Jargon
Buttons or links that hide their function so users must guess what they do
How Mysterious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mystery comes from an old Greek word mysterion meaning 'secret' or 'hidden thing'. That's why a mystery is something we cannot easily understand or explain.