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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mysterious
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mysterious stranger
▪ She never knew who the mysterious stranger was who had helped her that night.
die in suspicious/mysterious circumstances (=used to say that someone may have been killed)
▪ He got involved with drug dealers and died in mysterious circumstances.
mysterious circumstances (=strange or suspicious)
▪ One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances.
strange/unusual/mysterious etc happenings
▪ There have been reports of strange happenings in the town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ They would prefer to keep the mysteries of nature as mysterious as possible.
▪ The significance of this link is as mysterious as everything else to do with the Prieure.
▪ The rooms were just as mysterious.
▪ His death was as mysterious as his life.
▪ Washed in shadow he looked as mysterious as when she first met him.
▪ It was a gift. As mysterious and as simple as that.
▪ The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions, for example, remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century.
more
▪ Its mystery somehow diminished life, or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still.
▪ In fact, according to the rules of quantum mechanics, what is happening is even more mysterious than that!
▪ These days it seems something more mysterious, but also somehow more real.
▪ The pines are darker and more mysterious than ever.
▪ Even more mysterious were the tins of pre-mixed tea, milk and sugar, to which people tried to add water.
▪ However, after that first burst of idea and feeling, it presents a deeper, more mysterious sadness.
▪ Indeed, now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever.
▪ A missing princess is more mysterious than a found one.
so
▪ Nowadays, of course, we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious.
▪ Now their job is easier-the links are no longer so mysterious.
▪ It's not half so mysterious when you've got a horde of parents dragging screaming kids around it.
▪ She didn't need to pretend it was all so mysterious.
▪ And perhaps the reasons for his quasi-retirement are not so mysterious after all.
▪ The second feature, the power system, is not so mysterious.
very
▪ It's all very mysterious - why, for instance, does Cape still need a managing director but not Chatto?
▪ Television: Your little Hubble-vision into a very mysterious world.
▪ She was tall and dark and pale, and looked very mysterious and romantic.
▪ The wheeling and dealing of regimes is presumably not very mysterious.
▪ Blanche DuBois arrives at Stella's and Stanley's house under very mysterious circumstances.
■ NOUN
circumstances
▪ The defendants stored on their land large quantities of combustible materials which ignited in mysterious circumstances.
▪ The latest wave of repression began after Ali Akbar SaidiSirjani died in detention under mysterious circumstances in the end of 1994.
▪ That Pheidias died in prison under mysterious circumstances, as Plutarch says, is a later and unfounded tradition.
▪ Tethlis dies afterwards under mysterious circumstances.
▪ Some had died in rather mysterious circumstances, others been sent abroad on this task or the other.
▪ Eight others connected directly or indirectly with the dig later died in mysterious circumstances.
▪ Blanche DuBois arrives at Stella's and Stanley's house under very mysterious circumstances.
death
▪ Of course, you will have to have what P. D. James called the mysterious death at the heart of your story.
▪ But it will have to be more than the mysterious death used in the old, simple detective story.
▪ There is, she says, always a mysterious death at its heart.
▪ The two-hour film is due to be screened on November 5, the second anniversary of the publisher's mysterious death.
▪ Most of the £406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year.
▪ Whilst she was employed as a maid in various establishments, other staff members met mysterious deaths, usually from poison.
disappearance
▪ Her heart quickened - perhaps they were discussing Puddephat's mysterious disappearance?
▪ The mysterious disappearance of Mr. Stavanger alone is something that needs to be cleared up.
▪ Read in studio A search has been launched after a couples mysterious disappearance.
▪ Read in studio Police say they're baffled by the mysterious disappearance of a twenty nine year old farmer.
man
▪ As the mysterious man following Blackeyes, Nigel Planer speaks at last, though he has damn all to say.
▪ And some mysterious man in the gym.
▪ Could she have triggered some unwanted response in this mysterious man, entirely by accident?
▪ This must be the place where the mysterious man was hiding!
▪ As I looked round the hut, I knew that the mysterious man must have a very strong character.
▪ This mysterious man had penetrated Jaq's Tarot.
▪ I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man.
▪ Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living.
way
▪ Theories, however, operate in mysterious ways.
▪ But events have moved in mysterious ways.
▪ History repeats itself in some less than mysterious ways.
▪ In some mysterious way, from this horror of blank boundless vacancy the best of all things came into being.
▪ But love and scandal move in mysterious ways.
▪ He was smiling, frustrating Jerome in some mysterious way.
▪ Yet she knew the dead touched the living in unexpected and mysterious ways.
ways
▪ Theories, however, operate in mysterious ways.
▪ But events have moved in mysterious ways.
▪ History repeats itself in some less than mysterious ways.
▪ But love and scandal move in mysterious ways.
▪ Yet she knew the dead touched the living in unexpected and mysterious ways.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God moves in a mysterious way/mysterious ways
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a woman with a mysterious past
▪ He was an impostor -- dark, frightening and mysterious.
▪ He was seen leaving the building at midnight with two men -- it was all very mysterious.
▪ I kept getting mysterious phone calls where the caller would hang up as soon as I answered.
▪ No one could offer an explanation for his mysterious disappearance.
▪ Police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a young schoolteacher.
▪ She had been suffering from mysterious fits for five years before the doctors diagnosed epilepsy.
▪ The General was killed in a mysterious plane crash.
▪ The ship vanished in mysterious circumstances, never to be seen again.
▪ There was something mysterious about him, and she wanted to ask him a lot of questions.
▪ Two weeks later, the shop burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances.
▪ Who killed the mysterious visitor to Pine Valley?
▪ You are a mysterious girl -- why won't you tell me your name?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of them with a tap root deep in history and branches lost in mysterious mist.
▪ At all times all wise men had revered the mysterious organ of generation through which alone might life be entered.
▪ He will bear a parcel from the mysterious, lovely, no-place-jacketed Carolina.
▪ Hidden along each Trail are nine mysterious clues.
▪ Ishmael suggests that various primitive tribes and various religions have always looked upon the sea as something mysterious and deep.
▪ Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest.
▪ The witch: An evil, mysterious character, with the classic, repulsive look of a witch.
▪ When the whale is cut up, the head resembles that of the mysterious Sphynx.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mysterious

Mysterious \Mys*te"ri*ous\, a. [F. myst[`e]rieux. See 1st Mystery.] Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.

God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms.
--Milton.

Syn: Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic; enigmatical; unintelligible; inexplicable; incomprehensible.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mysterious

1610s, "full of mystery," from Latin mysterium (see mystery (n.1)) + -ous. Related: Mysteriously; mysteriousness. Earlier in same sense was mysterial (early 15c.), from Late Latin mysterialis.

Wiktionary
mysterious

a. 1 Of unknown origin. 2 Having unknown quality. 3 difficult to understand. 4 deliberately evasive or enigmatic.

WordNet
mysterious

  1. adj. of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying]

  2. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]

Wikipedia
Mysterious (song)

"Mysterious" is the third and final single by Jentina from her eponynomus debut album, Jentina, and was released only in Italy. Plans were made for a UK release but were cancelled.

A music video, directed by Ben Ib was made for this single with a futuristic theme. The video was mostly computerized with Jentina singing in many different locations and appearing in many different magazines.

Mysterious (horse)

Mysterious (1970–1988) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career lasting from July 1972 until October 1973 she ran eight times and won five races. Mysterious won Group races on her first four racecourse appearances including the Classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse and Oaks at Epsom. She later finished second to Dahlia in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh and won the Yorkshire Oaks at York.

Usage examples of "mysterious".

The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners.

Harry smile - this cabby would make a report by telephone to some mysterious personage who had hired him to pick up a passenger outside the Acme Florists.

Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.

In that mysterious region known to explorers as the Sargasso Sea, the youth found a weird metal ship surviving from the lost age of High Atlantis, on which there still lived an Atlantean sorceress, an ageless and beautiful creature called Corenice, who inhabits an eternal and deathless body of impervious metal.

He checked the indexes and methodically began reading everything he could find about agnosia and amaurosis, with the uncomfortable impression of being an intruder in a field beyond his competence, the mysterious terrain of neurosurgery, about which he only had the vaguest notion.

He will simply allude, in conclusion, to the performances of the Mysterious Foundling, as exhibiting perfection hitherto unparalleled in the Art of Legerdemain, with wonders of untraceable intricacy on the cards, originally the result of abstruse calculations made by that renowned Algebraist, Mohammed Engedi, extending over a period of ten years, dating from the year 1215 of the Arab Chronology.

His bold cheekbones, aggressive nose, and strong jaw were as exotic, compelling, and mysterious to Amaryllis as the alien artifacts themselves.

I believe you when you say that this spirit, named Amel by the two witches who could see him and hear him -- Maharet and Mekare -- exists now in all of us, his mysterious body, if we may call it that, having grown like a rampant vine to blossom in every Blood Hunter who is made by another, right on up to the present time.

From its great humped bony-ridged back there streams an irresistible radiance, a mysterious shimmering amethystine glow that fills the sky and stains the water a deep violet.

I guessed that she feared my suspecting the ambassador of enjoying from the mysterious closet the sight of our amorous trio, and she wished to destroy that suspicion by her proposal.

The generators of the mighty battleship roared louder and louder as the mysterious apparatus sucked unimaginable amperage from them.

His mysterious manner excited my surprise rather than interest, and I followed him apathetically into a corner.

An aphorism is merely a small group of words arranged in a certain order because they sound good that way, but oftentimes people tend to say them as if they were saying something very mysterious and wise.

Lazy Y foreman, went to the spot where he had caught the mysterious, apish gentleman examining the box, and searched industriously for half an hour before he found what he wanted--the sheet of paper the apish fellow had dropped.

I knew that Arain went into the earthworks, sometimes to fulfill the sacred and mysterious duties of the High Colonel, sometimes to fulfill her passion for knowledge.