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.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
enigmatic
adj 1: 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "enigmatic":
able, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, arcane, baffling,
beguiling, bewildering, bothering, cabalistic, censored,
classified, close, closed, concealed, confounding, confusing,
cryptic, dark, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting,
disturbing, embarrassing, equivocal, equivocatory, esoteric,
exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating,
hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, incalculable, incognizable,
incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, intricate, ironic,
latent, marvelous, miraculous, multivocal, mysterious, mystifying,
obscure, occult, outlandish, passing strange, perplexing,
perturbing, phenomenal, polysemantic, polysemous, problematic,
prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, restricted, riddling,
sealed, secret, sensational, smothered, sphinxlike, stifled,
strange, striking, stupendous, suppressed, top secret, ulterior,
unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, unbreatheable,
uncertain, uncharted, unclassified, under security, under wraps,
undisclosable, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered,
undivulgable, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed,
unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified,
unimaginable, uninvestigated, unique, unknowable, unknown,
unperceived, unplumbed, unprecedented, unrevealable, unrevealed,
unspoken, unsuspected, untellable, untold, untouched, unutterable,
unuttered, unwhisperable, upsetting, virgin, wonderful, wondrous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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