- mystery
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)n. secret, enigma, puzzle, cabala; rite, sacrament. See concealment, latency, obscurity, unintelligibility.II(Roget's IV) n.1. [The quality of being mysterious]Syn. inscrutability, inscrutableness, unfathomableness, unfathomability, undiscoverability, unanswerableness, unexplainableness, inexplicableness, abstruseness, equivocality, esoterism, occultism, cabalism; see also irregularity 2 , magic 1 , 2 , strangeness .Ant. clarity*, discoverability, scrutability.2. [Something difficult to know]3. [A trick]Syn. sleight-of-hand, trick of magic, juggle; see trick 1 .4. [*A mystery story]Syn. detective story, mystery play, mystery movie; see story .See Synonym Study at puzzle .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. an unknown puzzle, enigma, perplexity, conundrum, secret, closed book, question mark.2. inscrutability obscurity, imperceptibility, secret, inexplicability, in-solvability.3. novel/play police procedural, detective story, *whodunit, *cat and mouse, *cloak and dagger, *cozy.ANT.: 1. open book, answer, explanation, clarificationIV(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Anything that arouses curiosity or perplexes because it is unexplained, inexplicable, or secret: conundrum, enigma, perplexity, puzzle, puzzler, riddle. See SHOW.
English dictionary for students. 2013.