Mystery

Noun

 * 1) Something secret or unexplainable; unknown.
 * 2) Someone or thing with an obscure or puzzling nature.
 * 3)  A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.

Adjectives for Mystery
sweet; solemn;  unsolved;  bewildering mighty; durable; inscrutable; profound dread; artistic; baffling; overpowering woodland; unaccountable; venerable; incarnate; hateful; fashionable; ridiculous; inevitable; unfolded; delicate; gray; unanswerable; ecstatic; unborn; worshipful; embarrassing; unexplored; mild; bearded; abstruse; labyrinthine; sacred; solemn; prime sublime; peculiar; subtle; unfathomable hungering; occult; sensational; painful brooding; wingy; domestic; indescribable deluding; juggling; physical; shrouding selfsame.

Verbs for Mystery
absorb in—; cloak in—; comprehend—; concoct—; confront with—; deepen—; delve into—; dispel—; dissipate—; elucidate—; encompass by—; envelop in—; explore—ies of; fathom—; ferret out—; heighten—; initiate into—; penetrate—; plumb—; ponder—; reveal—; shroud in—; solve—; unlock—; unravel—; unveil—; wrap in—; — baffles; —prevails; —surrounds.

Thesaurus
enigma, enigmatic question, enigmaticalness, enticingness, epic theater, esoterica, esotericism, esoterics, esoterism, esotery, experimental theater, extraordinariness, extravaganza, fable, fabliau, faerie, failure, 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, guarded secret, handicraft, happening, hermetics, hit, hit show, 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, marvelousness, masque, matter of ignorance, melodrama, metier, 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, myth, mythology, mythos, n, nebulousness, nonplus, number, numinousness, nursery tale, nut to crack, obscurity, observance, occultism, occupation, office, opera, order of worship, ordinance, otherworldliness, pageant, panel show, pantomime, parable, 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, sacrament, sacramental, 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, straight drama, stumper, stupendousness, success, superhumanity, 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, thriller, total theater, tough proposition, trade, transcendentalism, unaccountableness, unassuredness, undefinability, unearthliness, unexplainableness, unexplored ground, unexplored territory, unknown quantity, unworldliness, upset, vagueness, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, vexed question, vocation, walk, walk of life, whodunit, why, witchery, wonderfulness, wondrousness, word-of-mouth success, work, work of fiction, x, yoga, yogeeism, yogism, Chinese puzzle, Grand Guignol, Marchen, Passion play, Tom show, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, ambiguity, ambiguousness, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, antimasque, apologue, arcanum, art, audience success, awesomeness, baffle, bafflement, baffling problem, ballet, bedtime story, beguilingness, bewilderment, bomb, bother, brain twister, brain-teaser, broadcast drama, burlesque show, business, cabala, cabalism, career, career building, careerism, ceremonial, ceremony, charade, classified information, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, confidence, confidential communication, confoundment, confusion, conundrum, craft, critical success, crossword puzzle, crux, dark horse, daytime serial, detective novel, detective story, dialogue, dilemma, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, duty, eeriness, elfdom, embarrassment, enchantingness.

Etymology
From mysterie: <  mysterium: <  μυστήριον: < μύστης: < μυέω: < μύω:.

Synonyms

 * roun

Derived terms

 * mysterious


 * mystery play

Related terms

 * mystic
 * mystical


 * mysticism
 * mystify


 * mystique

Translations

 * Albanian: mister
 * Arabic: (ser)
 * Armenian: գաղտնիք (gaġtnik'), առեղծված (aṙeġçvaç)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 神秘 (shénmì)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: müsteerium
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საიდუმლოება, ხვაშიადი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תעלומה
 * Hindi: रहस्य
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ミステリー (misuterī)
 * Korean: 신비 (sinbi)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: noslēpums
 * Lithuanian: paslaptis
 * Mongolian: нууц
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: skrivnost
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: siri
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (kwaam lée láp)
 * Turkish:, esrar
 * Vietnamese: bí ẩn
 * Welsh: dirgelwch
 * Welsh: dirgelwch


 * Arabic: غامض
 * Armenian: առեղծված (aṙeġçvaç)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:


 * German:
 * Russian: