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| Main Entry: | mystic/mystical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, esoteric |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | knowable, natural, palpable, undisguised |
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| Main Entry: | cryptic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret; obscure in meaning |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hidden, incomprehensible, inexplicable, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear, unfathomable, vague, veiled, Delphian, Delphic, mystifying, uninformative |
| Notes: | cryptic coloration helps conceal an animal; phaneric coloration makes an animal stand out |
| Antonyms: | clear, obvious, plain, straightforward, seen |
| Main Entry: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | godlike, perfect |
| Synonyms: | almighty, ambrosial, angelic, beatific, beautiful, blissful, celestial, consecrated, eternal, exalted, excellent, glorious, godly, hallowed, heavenly, holy, immaculate, magnificent, marvelous, mystical, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, rapturous, religious, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified, spiritual, splendid, superhuman, superlative, supernatural, supreme, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, wonderful, all-powerful, anointed, deific, deistic, sacramental, theistic, transmundane |
| Main Entry: | esoteric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, obscure |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret, Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, acroamatic |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, known, obvious, public, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | hidden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unseen, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, clandestine, cloaked, close, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, disguised, esoteric, hermetic, in the dark, indiscernible, invisible, latent, masked, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, private, recondite, secluded, shadowy, surreptitious, ulterior, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unknown, veiled, withheld, QT, buried, clouded, eclipsed, hermetical, imperceivable, out of view, screened, sequestered, shrouded, undetected, unexposed, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | bare, exhibited, exposed, open, out, showing, uncovered, seen |
| Main Entry: | metaphysical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not physical; without physical presence |
| Synonyms: | abstract, abstruse, deep, difficult, esoteric, eternal, fundamental, high-flown, ideal, immaterial, impalpable, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, intellectual, mystical, philosophical, preternatural, profound, recondite, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supernatural, theoretical, transcendental, unearthly, universal, unreal, unsubstantial, bodiless, discarnate, jesuitic, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, oversubtle, supermundane, suprahuman, supramundane, supranatural, unfleshly, unphysical |
| Antonyms: | concrete, material, objective, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | mysterious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, concealed |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, arcane, baffling, cabalistic, covert, cryptic, curious, dark, difficult, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, magical, mystical, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, spiritual, strange, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknown, unnatural, veiled, weird, alchemistic, astrological, enigmatical, mystifying, necromantic, sphinxlike, unknowable |
| Antonyms: | apparent, known, obvious, plain, public, straightforward, tangible, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | occult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, secret; supernatural |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, deep, eerie, esoteric, hermetic, hidden, invisible, magic, magical, mystic, mystical, obscure, preternatural, profound, psychic, recondite, unearthly, unknown, veiled, weird, acroamatic, orphic, transmundane, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | known, natural |
| Main Entry: | oracular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, apocalyptic, arcane, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, dogmatic, foreboding, imperious, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portentous, positive, prescient, sage, secret, significant, vague, venerable, wise, Delphian, anticipating, auguring, discovering, divining, divulging, fatidic, forecasting, foretelling, interpretive, mantic, portending, predicting, presaging, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sibylline, soothsaying, vatic |
| Main Entry: | otherworldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraterrestrial; psychic |
| Synonyms: | alien, ethereal, heavenly, magical, mystical, out of this world, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unworldly, visionary |
| Main Entry: | recondite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, obscure |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, esoteric, hard, heavy*, hermetic, hidden, involved, mystic, mystical, occult, pedantic, profound, scholarly, secret, acroamatic, little-known, orphic |
| Antonyms: | obvious, plain, simple, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mystic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, esoteric, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, mystical, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, witchlike, wizardly |
| Main Entry: | secret |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, unrevealed |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, camouflaged, classified, cloak-and-dagger, close, closet, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, deep, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hush-hush*, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, out-of-the-way*, private, recondite, reticent, retired, secluded, strange, under wraps*, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unenlightened, unintelligible, unknown, unpublished, unseen, veiled, backdoor, clouded, conspiratorial, enigmatical, on the QT, shrouded, unfrequented |
| Antonyms: | clear, explicit, forthright, honest, open, public, unconcealed, defined, revealed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | difficult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complicated; hard to comprehend |
| Synonyms: | abstract, abstruse, baffling, complex, confusing, dark, deep, delicate, enigmatic, esoteric, formidable, hidden, inexplicable, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, loose, meandering, mysterious, mystical, nice, obscure, obstinate, perplexing, profound, puzzling, rambling, subtle, tangled, thorny, ticklish, troublesome, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, bewildering, confounding, enigmatical, entangled, hard to explain, hard to solve, mystifying, paradoxical, problematical, vexing |
| Antonyms: | easy, simple, straightforward, uncomplicated |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, complicated, concealed, cryptic, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, intricate, knotty, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, puzzling, recondite, Delphian, mystifying, not known |
| Antonyms: | apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, plain, visible |
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| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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credulous, God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, defrocked, deserving of belief, doctrinal, epideistic, faithworthy, fidlimplicitary, fiducial, fiduciary, filiopletistic, hagiolatrous, hallowed, heliolatrous, holy, imbued with, impressed with, impressive, interdenominational, judaical, kosher, mystical, numinous, penetrated with, persuasive, piacular, pistic, positive, prelapsarian, probable, profane, putative, reborn, recreant, relating to belief, reliable, sacred, sacrosanct, satisfactory, satisfied, saved, secure, sure, suspectless, to be depended upon, trustworthy, ultrafidian, under the impression, unhesitating, unholy, unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, venerable, void of suspicion, wedded to, worthy of belief
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| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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magic, Pythian, adumbrative, aeaeae, apocalyptic, apotropaic, attuned, beatific, blessed, blissed, celestial, chaldean, charmed, chimerical, deep, devoid, disembodied, divine, eerie, elevated, ethereal, evanescent, exalted, existential, extrasensory, fatidic, hagborn, hermetic, holy, hypnotic, imaginary, incantatory, integrated, magical, mantic, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, oneiric, orphic, pacific, paranormal, phylacteric, positive, preternatural, psychedelic, psychic, realized, sacred, sensitive, sibylline, spellbound, stoicheiotical, sublime, supernal, supernatural, supersensible, supreme, surrealistic, talismanic, telestically, thaumaturgical, touched, transcendental, tuned, uncanny, unfamiliar, unimaginable, unreal, vatic, weird
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| Main Entry: | obscurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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loose, abstruse, ambiguous, brumous, confused, crabbed, dark, dim, enigmatic, enigmatical, hidden, illegible, impenetrable, inapprehensible, incognizable, incommunicable, inconceivable, inconceptible, indefinite, inexplicable, inexpressible, inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, involved, larvate, latent, latitant, macroscian, metagnostic, misty, muddy, mysterious, mystic, mystical, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, occult, paradoxical, perplexed, puzzlepated, puzzling, recondite, searchless, sphingine, tenebrific, transcendental, turbid, unaccountable, unconceived, undeciphered, undefinable, undetermined, undiscernible, undiscoverable, unexplained, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknowable, vague
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