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# mystical

«mystical» in Mova's school dictionary: **hard to explain, beyond the everyday world** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (mystical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having a hidden spiritual meaning that is hard to explain, beyond the everyday world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#m1)

2) Strange, magical and full of wonder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In religion and stories: a mystical experience, a mystical light. In The Wind in the Willows the chapter «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn» is mystical: Rat and Mole meet the god Pan on an island and feel awe.

### examples

- The forest at dawn felt mystical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x1)
- Rat and Mole had a mystical meeting on the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x2)
- Some Christians tell of mystical experiences in prayer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x3)
- The old stone circle has a mystical feel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x4)
- The music sounded mystical and far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x5)
- The story is full of mystical creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x6)

### note

Related: mystic, mystery, mysticism. Trap: mystical things are not proven by science; say «some people believe».

### Trees and pragmatics

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