Mystery

//ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi//

Synonyms for "mystery" (364 found)

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Closest matches (73)

Strong matches (109)

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fairy tale fantasy fascination fiction fix floorer flop folk story folktale form form of worship formality formula formulary frontier frontiers of knowledge function game gasser gest ghost story giveaway glamorousness grand guignol guarded secret handicraft happening hermetics hit hit show hocus pocus hocus-pocus holy rite horse opera improvisational drama indefinability indefiniteness inexplicability inextricability inscrutability insolvability institution jam jigsaw puzzle knot knotty point legend legitimate drama lifework line line of business line of work liturgy love story marchen marvelousness masque matter of ignorance melodrama metier mind boggler mind-boggler minstrel show miracle miracle play miraculousness mission mode of worship monodrama monologue morality morality play mumbo jumbo music drama musical revue mysteriousness mystery of mysteries mystery play mystery story mysticism mystification mystique myth mythology mythos n nebulousness nonplus

Noun(1 words)

mystery story

Related words (182)

number numinousness nursery tale nut to crack obscurity observance occult occultism occupation office opera order of worship ordinance otherworldliness pageant panel show pantomime parable paradox passion play

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pastoral pastoral drama perplexed question perplexity personal matter perturbation phenomenalness pickle piece play playlet plight poser pother practice predicament prescribed form preternaturalism private matter privileged communication privity problem problem play prodigiousness profession profound secret psychodrama pursuit puzzle puzzlement puzzler quandary question question mark quiz show racket radio drama remarkableness restricted information review revue riddle rite ritual ritual observance rituality romance roun sacrament sacramental sci fi science fiction scrape sealed book secrecy secret seductiveness sensational play serial service shocker show sitcom situation comedy sixty-four dollar question sketch skit soap soap opera sociodrama solemnity space fiction space opera specialization specialty spectacle stage play stage show stew sticker story straight drama stumper stupendousness success superhumanity supernatural supernaturalism supernaturality supernaturalness supernature supernormalness superphysicalness supersensibleness supranaturalism supranature suspense drama suspense story symbolics symbolism tableau tableau vivant talk show teleplay television drama television play terra incognita the incalculable the occult the strange the supernatural the supersensible the unfamiliar the unknowable the unknown theater of cruelty theosophy thriller tom show total theater tough proposition trade transcendentalism unaccountableness unassuredness undefinability unearthliness unexplainableness unexplored ground unexplored territory unknown unknown quantity unworldliness upset vagueness variety show vaudeville vaudeville show vehicle vexed question vocation walk walk of life western western story westerner whodunit why witchery wonderfulness wondrousness word-of-mouth success work work of fiction x yoga yogeeism yogism z

Noun(3 words)

roun secret whodunit

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

11 relation types

More general

2 entries

perplexity story

Antonyms

1 entries

known

Synonyms

1 entries

roun

Related terms

5 entries

mystic mystical mysticism mystify mystique

capable of

1 entries

turn on small event

causes desire

3 entries

determine truth discover truth give clue

derived

37 entries

Eleusinian Mysteries Mystery Bay bag of mystery bibliomystery dramystery locked-room mystery murder mystery mysterama mysteriarch mysterical mysteried mysterious mysterize mystery bag mystery box mystery clock

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distinct from

1 entries

explainable

has context

2 entries

catholicism eastern orthodoxy

is a

4 entries

book one could read perplexity story written or spoken work

related to

30 entries

art book books christ clues craft enigma genre guild initiation mystic mystical mysticism mystification mystify mystique

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Translations

182 translations across 86 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

mister noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

μυστήριον noun (something secret or unexplainable)
μυστήριον noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)

Arabic

2 entries

سِرّ noun (something secret or unexplainable)
غُمُوض noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)

Aramaic

1 entries

רזא noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Armenian

3 entries

առեղծված noun (something secret or unexplainable)
առեղծված noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
գաղտնիք noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Asturian

1 entries

misteriu noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

sirr noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Basque

1 entries

misterio noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Belarusian

2 entries

зага́дка noun (something secret or unexplainable)
таямні́ца noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Bengali

1 entries

রহস্য noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Breton

1 entries

kevrin noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Bulgarian

4 entries

зага́дка noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
мисте́рия noun (something secret or unexplainable)
мисте́рия noun (event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions)
та́йна noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Burmese

1 entries

စကားထာ noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Catalan

1 entries

misteri noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Cebuano

1 entries

tugahala noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Chinese

2 entries

神奇 noun (something secret or unexplainable)
神秘 noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

神秘 noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

奧秘 /奥秘 noun (something secret or unexplainable)
怪事 noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
怪人 noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
懸疑小説 /悬疑小说 noun (account, often about crime or murder, with an ending explaining all that happened)

Czech

1 entries

záhada noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Danish

2 entries

mysterium noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mysterium noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)

Dutch

1 entries

mysterie noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Esperanto

1 entries

mistero noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Estonian

1 entries

müsteerium noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Finnish

2 entries

arvoitus noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
salaisuus noun (something secret or unexplainable)

French

1 entries

mystère noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Galician

1 entries

misterio noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Georgian

2 entries

საიდუმლოება noun (something secret or unexplainable)
ხვაშიადი noun (something secret or unexplainable)

German

3 entries

Geheimnis noun (something secret or unexplainable)
Rätsel noun (something secret or unexplainable)
Rätsel noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)

Gothic

1 entries

𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰 noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Greek

1 entries

μυστήριο noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Hebrew

3 entries

מיסטורין noun (something secret or unexplainable)
רז noun (something secret or unexplainable)
תַּעֲלוּמָה noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Hindi

4 entries

उक़्दा noun (something secret or unexplainable)
उक्दा noun (something secret or unexplainable)
मुअम्मा noun (something secret or unexplainable)
रहस्य noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Hungarian

1 entries

rejtély noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Icelandic

1 entries

ráðgáta noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Indonesian

1 entries

misteri noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Iranian Persian

3 entries

راز noun (something secret or unexplainable)
سِرّ noun (something secret or unexplainable)
مُعَمَّا noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Italian

4 entries

arcano noun (something secret or unexplainable)
enigma noun (something secret or unexplainable)
enigma noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
mistero noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Japanese

3 entries

ミステリー noun (something secret or unexplainable)
不思議 noun (something secret or unexplainable)
神秘 noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Kalmyk

1 entries

нууц noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Kapampangan

1 entries

misteriu duala noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Kazakh

2 entries

сыр noun (something secret or unexplainable)
құпия noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Khmer

1 entries

អាថ៌កំបាំង noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Korean

2 entries

미스터리 noun (something secret or unexplainable)
신비 noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Kyrgyz

3 entries

сыр noun (something secret or unexplainable)
табышмак noun (something secret or unexplainable)
табышмак noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)

Lao

1 entries

ຄວາມລຶກລັບ noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Latin

4 entries

arcanum noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mysterium noun (something secret or unexplainable)
naturae sacra noun (something secret or unexplainable)
obscuritas noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Latvian

2 entries

mistērija noun (something secret or unexplainable)
noslēpums noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Lithuanian

2 entries

misterija noun (something secret or unexplainable)
paslaptis noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Macedonian

4 entries

за́гатка noun (something secret or unexplainable)
за́гатка noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
мисте́рија noun (something secret or unexplainable)
мисте́рија noun (event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions)

Malay

1 entries

misteri noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Maltese

1 entries

misteru noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Mongolian

2 entries

нууц noun (something secret or unexplainable)
ᠨᠢᠭᠤᠴᠠ noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Māori

4 entries

mea huna noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mea ngaro noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mihiteria noun (event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions)
paki porehu noun (account, often about crime or murder, with an ending explaining all that happened)

Nepali

1 entries

रहस्य noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Norman

1 entries

mystéthe noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries

raz noun (something secret or unexplainable)
sir noun (something secret or unexplainable)
sirr noun (something secret or unexplainable)
surr noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

mysterium noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Occitan

1 entries

mistèri noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Old English

1 entries

ġerȳne noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Pashto

4 entries

اسرار noun (something secret or unexplainable)
راز noun (something secret or unexplainable)
سر noun (something secret or unexplainable)
نوز noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Jeheemniss noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Polish

4 entries

kryminał noun (account, often about crime or murder, with an ending explaining all that happened)
misterium noun (something secret or unexplainable)
misterium noun (event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions)
tajemnica noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Portuguese

3 entries

mistério noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mistério noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
mistério noun (event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions)

Romanian

1 entries

mister noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Russian

4 entries

зага́дка noun (something secret or unexplainable)
зага́дка noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
мисте́рия noun (event in the life of Jesus used as a focus for devotions)
та́йна noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

mìstērīj noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mìstērīj noun (someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature)
tajna noun (something secret or unexplainable)
zagonetka noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Slovak

1 entries

záhada noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Slovene

1 entries

skrivnost noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Spanish

2 entries

arcano noun (something secret or unexplainable)
misterio noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Swahili

2 entries

kilinge noun (something secret or unexplainable)
siri noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Swedish

2 entries

mysterium noun (something secret or unexplainable)
mystär noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Tagalog

2 entries

hiwaga noun (something secret or unexplainable)
misteryo noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Tajik

3 entries

муаммо noun (something secret or unexplainable)
роз noun (something secret or unexplainable)
сир noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Tamil

1 entries

மர்மம் noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Thai

2 entries

ความลี้ลับ noun (something secret or unexplainable)
รหัสยภาวะ noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Turkish

3 entries

esrâr noun (something secret or unexplainable)
gizem noun (something secret or unexplainable)
sır noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Turkmen

1 entries

syr noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Ukrainian

2 entries

зага́дка noun (something secret or unexplainable)
тає́мниця noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Urdu

4 entries

راز noun (something secret or unexplainable)
سِر noun (something secret or unexplainable)
سِرّ noun (something secret or unexplainable)
عُقْدَہ noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Uyghur

1 entries

سىر noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Uzbek

1 entries

sir noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Vietnamese

2 entries

bí ẩn noun (something secret or unexplainable)
huyền bí noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Volapük

2 entries

müster noun (something secret or unexplainable)
rätöf noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Welsh

1 entries

dirgelwch noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Yiddish

1 entries

מיסטעריע noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Zulu

1 entries

zinga noun (something secret or unexplainable)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

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Despite the importance of sleep, its purpose is a mystery.

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Space is full of mystery.

Source: tatoeba (27033)

Why he killed himself is still a mystery.

Source: tatoeba (36356)

I think the reason that he killed his wife is still a mystery.

Source: tatoeba (36357)

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