From Middle French mystérieux. English mystery + -ous.
mysterious (comparative more mysterious, superlative most mysterious)
- Of unknown origin.
- Synonym: untraceable
He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
- Having unknown qualities.
- Synonyms: esoteric, uncertain, undefined; see also Thesaurus:mysterious
- Hyponyms: anonymous, faceless, unexplored, unnamed, long-mysterious
Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] [1], 4th edition, page 252:God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
- Difficult to understand.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:incomprehensible
Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious.
- Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:covert
Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.
of unknown origin
- Afrikaans: misterieus
- Albanian: misterioz (sq)
- Arabic: غَامِض (ḡāmiḍ)
- Armenian: խորհրդավոր (hy) (xorhrdavor), առեղծվածային (hy) (aṙeġcvacayin), հանելուկային (hy) (hanelukayin)
- Asturian: misteriosu
- Azerbaijani: müəmmalı (az), əsrarəngiz, əsrarlı
- Basque: misteriotsu, misteriozko
- Belarusian: таямні́чы (tajamníčy)
- Bulgarian: таи́нствен (taínstven)
- Catalan: misteriós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 神奇 (zh-min-nan) (sîn-kî)
- Mandarin: 神秘 (zh) (shénmì)
- Czech: tajemný (cs) m, záhadný (cs) m
- Dutch: geheimzinnig (nl), mysterieus (nl)
- Esperanto: mistera
- Estonian: salapärane
- Finnish: salaperäinen (fi), mystinen (fi), outo (fi)
- French: mystérieux (fr)
- Galician: misterioso
- Georgian: ფარული (paruli), იდუმალი (idumali)
- German: mysteriös (de)
- Greek: μυστήριος (el) (mystírios)
- Greenlandic: paasissaalluanngilaq
- Hebrew: מִסְתּוֹרִי
- Hindi: रहस्यपूर्ण (rahasyapūrṇ), गूढ (gūḍh)
- Hungarian: titokzatos (hu), rejtelmes (hu), rejtélyes (hu)
- Ido: misterioza (io)
- Indonesian: misterius (id)
- Irish: rúndiamhair
- Italian: misterioso (it), ignoto (it) m
- Japanese: 神秘的な (しんぴてきな, shinpiteki na), ミステリアスな (misuteriasu na), 不思議な (ja) (ふしぎな, fushigi na)
- Khmer: អាថ៌កំបាំង (ʼaat kɑmbang)
- Korean: 신비(神秘)하다 (ko) (sinbihada)
- Latin: arcanus, mysterius, obscurus (la), tectus (la), mysticus, secretus, reconditus
- Latvian: mīklains, noslēpumains
- Lithuanian: paslaptingas
- Malay: penuh misteri
- Maori: porehu
- Mongolian: нууц далд (nuuc dald)
- Norman: mystéthieux
- Occitan: misteriós (oc)
- Persian: مبهم (fa) (mobham), مرموز (fa) (marmuz)
- Polish: tajemniczy (pl)
- Portuguese: misterioso (pt)
- Romanian: misterios (ro)
- Russian: таи́нственный (ru) (taínstvennyj), зага́дочный (ru) (zagádočnyj)
- Sanskrit: गूढ (sa) (gūḍhá)
- Scottish Gaelic: dìomhair
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тајанствен, загонетан
- Roman: tajanstven (sh), zagonetan (sh)
- Slovak: tajomný, záhadný
- Slovene: skrivnosten (sl)
- Spanish: misterioso
- Swahili: kidube
- Swedish: mystisk (sv)
- Tagalog: katakataka
- Thai: ลี้ลับ (lée láp)
- Tibetan: མགོ་འཐོམ་ཡག (mgo 'thom yag)
- Turkish: gizemli (tr), esrarlı (tr)
- Turkmen: syrly
- Ukrainian: таємни́чий (tajemnýčyj)
- Vietnamese: thần bí (vi) (神秘)
- Welsh: cyfriniol (cy), rhiniol
- Yiddish: מיסטעריעז (misteryez)
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having unknown qualities
- Bulgarian: тайнствен (bg) (tajnstven)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: tajuplný
- Dutch: geheimzinnig (nl), raadselachtig (nl), mysterieus (nl)
- Finnish: salaperäinen (fi), mystinen (fi)
- Georgian: იდუმალი (idumali)
- German: rätselhaft (de)
- Ido: misterioza (io)
- Irish: rúnda
- Latin: arcanus, secretus, occultus, reconditus, mysticus, occultus, tectus (la), obscurus (la)
- Latvian: noslēpumains, mīklains
- Malay: penuh misteri
- Portuguese: misterioso (pt)
- Russian: неизве́стный (ru) (neizvéstnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: dìomhair
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deliberately evasive or enigmatic
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