Synonyms for enigmatic
- adjective
Most common
mysterious ambiguous incomprehensible puzzling oracular sibylline
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Mysterious
mysterious, puzzling, incomprehensible, obscure, ambiguous, dark, perplexing, mystic, unknowable, recondite, inexplicable, hidden, arcane, occult, equivocal, enigmatical, tenebrose, inscrutable, cryptic, mystical, esoteric, abstruse formal
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Pertaining to an enigma.
Related words
- Word family
- enigmatically
- Phrases
- enigmatic canon
Example sentences
- mysterious A mysterious spaceship was flying away from Earth.
- ambiguous The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.
- incomprehensible This language is incomprehensible to me when spoken.
- puzzling Korean is a puzzling language to learn, isn't it?
- oracular Those oracular Chinese proverbs were confusing for the students.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| enigmatic | rising | |
| mysterious | rising | |
| ambiguous | rising | |
| incomprehensible | rising | |
| puzzling | steady | |
| oracular | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- dark1
- 6 letters
- hidden2, mystic2, occult2, arcane2
- 7 letters
- obscure2, cryptic2
- 8 letters
- mystical3, esoteric4, puzzling3, abstruse2, oracular
- 9 letters
- ambiguous4, equivocal4, recondite3, sibylline, tenebrose
- 10 letters
- mysterious4, perplexing3, unknowable4
- 11 letters
- inscrutable4, kabbalistic, enigmatical
- 12 letters
- inexplicable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hidden2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- énigmatique
- Italiano
- enigmatico
- Español
- enigmático
- Deutsch
- enigmatisch