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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mystify Mys"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mystified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mystifying.] [F. mystifier, fr. Gr. ? + L. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See 1st Mystery, and -fy.] 1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture. 2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly. --Ld. Campbell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see mystify

Moby Thesaurus

baffling, bewildering, bothering, confounding, confusing, dark, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, intricate, mysterious, perplexing, perturbing, problematic, puzzling, upsetting