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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enigmatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Everything carries a strangeness as enigmatic as the vision of Constantina, poised with her knife above the chocolate-roll.
■ NOUN
smile
▪ She smiled that enigmatic smile again as I countered with my bishop's pawn.
▪ Rafiq did not speak but stood looking at his two colleagues, an enigmatic smile on his face.
▪ His face wore that same enigmatic smile, but he did not speak.
▪ He didn't say anything, he just smiled his quiet, enigmatic smile and returned to his paper.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an enigmatic smile
▪ Ever since the start of the journey Ahamado had remained enigmatic, silent and unforthcoming.
▪ Freud remains today an enigmatic figure.
▪ He was fascinated by the enigmatic actress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His face wore that same enigmatic smile, but he did not speak.
▪ Rafiq did not speak but stood looking at his two colleagues, an enigmatic smile on his face.
▪ She presented him with barrier after barrier of enigmatic remarks, as now.
▪ She smiled that enigmatic smile again as I countered with my bishop's pawn.
▪ Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.
▪ Still, he is impressive as the surly, enigmatic intellectual who offers Jane a glimmer of hope for a better life.
▪ The books they marked were returned, probably not fully read, but with these enigmatic new chapters unwittingly added.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enigmatic

Enigmatic \E`nig*mat"ic\ (?; 277), Enigmatical \E`nig*mat"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]nigmatique.] Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; not clear to the understanding; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer; I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatical comment until much later; prophetic texts so enigmatical that their meaning has been disputed for centuries.

Syn: dark, obscure, puzzling.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enigmatic

1640s, from Late Latin aenigmaticus, from aenigmat-, stem of aenigma (see enigma). Enigmatical in the same sense is from 1570s. Related: Enigmatically.

Wiktionary
enigmatic

a. 1 Pertaining to an enigma. 2 mysterious. 3 Defying description. 4 (variant) enigmatical. alt. 1 Pertaining to an enigma. 2 mysterious. 3 Defying description. 4 (variant) enigmatical.

WordNet
enigmatic
  1. adj. not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries" [syn: enigmatical, puzzling]

  2. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: oracular]

Wikipedia
Enigmatic

Enigmatic is an adjective meaning "mysterious" or "puzzling". It may also refer to:

  • Enigmatic (album), a 1970 album by Czesław Niemen
  • Enigmatic: Calling, a 2005 album by Norwegian progressive metal band Pagan's Mind
Enigmatic (album)

Enigmatic - Czesław Niemen's rock album released in 1970. It is considered to be the best Polish rock album ever. Inspired in 1968 by Wojciech Młynarski Niemen decided to make his new album with polish poetry as lyrics. Recorded in 1969 and released in 1970 became very popular and was awarded with Golden record in 1971 (in Poland Golden Records were awarded for selling 160 000 album copies). As of 2012, the album has sold in excess of 5 million copies around the world.

Usage examples of "enigmatic".

This ring was eventually broken up, only to be replaced with an even more successfulJuarezoperation, headed up by an enigmatic Mexican who was shortly to become a legend: Amado Carillo Fuentes.

His driven pace took him away from the ruins without so much as a look back, which is why he never saw the enigmatic smiles on the faces of Gyrison and Arach turn more sinister.

Last Hope and the abandoned temple of the enigmatic Arach and Gyrison.

They finally reach Las Vegas, the closest this deracinated world gets to an Emerald City, where an enigmatic tycoon named Mr.

Those tangible engineering practicalities forced Wiener and Bigelow to confront the enigmatic feedback process and the thorny problems Wiener did not tend to in his project with Lee in China.

Harry had gotten her into the chorus line at the Folies, but she was too argumentative for management, so when the war scare chased his American musicians from the Happy Paris to Hawaii, he replaced them by making her the enigmatic and, apart from lyrics, silent Record Girl.

If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic.

There were Lemmon, the troopmistress, and Shoye, who trained and quartermastered the resistance, their enigmatic faces cautious and sharp-lit with shadows.

She greeted him with a mocking, enigmatic smile in which was a poignant gaiety.

Dauntless and her crew were thrown out of a hyper-spatial tube and into that highly enigmatic Nth space, La Verne Thorndyke had been Chief Technician.

Sitting down on a rock and tucking his legs beneath him, a thoughtful Quoll sat as still as he was able and contemplated the enigmatic moonbow.

Gilbert chemistry set, the Electroman electricity set, the Brainiac computer set, the Walt Disney comics, the old schoolbooks with their enigmatic graffiti, the lenses and knives and coins and combs and pencils and matchbooks and pieces of wax.

Warner Munn has been involved with the figure of Gwalchmai for over thirty-five years, and with the mysterious and enigmatic girl from Atlantis, Corenice.

Name, as the enigmatic Phiz continues, in the weak light, to sharpen toward Revelation.

Even Carla, who had little sense of humor at the best of times and who was moreover distracted by the unexpected descent of the problematic, enigmatic Dulcie into an ordinary, silly five-year-old, even Carla began to grin at the two of them.