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# mysterious

«mysterious» in Mova's school dictionary: **strange and hard to explain or understand** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (mysterious; mysteriously adv.)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mysterious means strange and hard to explain or understand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#m1)

2) A mysterious person keeps secrets or does not tell much about themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories: mysterious noises, a mysterious stranger, a mysterious letter — they build suspense and make the reader want to find out more. In science: something mysterious may be explained later by experiments.

### examples

- A mysterious parcel arrived with no name on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x1)
- We heard mysterious footsteps in the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x2)
- The mysterious stranger wore a long black cloak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x3)
- The cookies disappeared mysteriously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x4)
- Scientists study mysterious objects in space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x5)
- She smiled in a mysterious way and said nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x6)
- The old house looked dark and mysterious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x7)
- The whole affair is indeed mysterious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/#x8)

### note

Noun: mystery. Spelling: mysterIOUS (drop the y → i: mystery → mysterious). Synonyms: strange, puzzling, secretive.

### In the corpora

- [Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mysterious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mysterious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.