Dictionary entry

Mysterious

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mys‐te″ri‐ous (?), a. [F. mystèrieux. See 1st Mystery.] Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.

God at last

To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied,

Thought in mysterious terms. Milton.

Syn. — Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic; enigmatical; unintelligible; incomprehensible.