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- Dictionaryenigmatic/ɛnɪɡˈmatɪk/
adjective
- 1. difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious: "he took the money with an enigmatic smile"
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The adjective enigmatic describes what is hard to solve or figure out. An enigmatic person is someone who is a bit mysterious to others. Behind an enigmatic smile are thoughts impossible to guess.
Enigmatic definition: resembling an enigma, or a puzzling occurrence, situation, statement, person, etc.; perplexing; mysterious. See examples of ENIGMATIC used in a sentence.
mysterious and impossible to understand completely: The Mona Lisa has a famously enigmatic smile. He left an enigmatic message on my answering machine. Synonyms. cryptic. inscrutable. mysterious. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Confusion, confusing and feeling confused. addled. all of a doodah idiom. all over the place idiom.
mysterious and impossible to understand completely: The Mona Lisa has a famously enigmatic smile. He left an enigmatic message on my answering machine. Synonyms. cryptic. inscrutable. mysterious. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Confusion, confusing and feeling confused.
Synonyms for ENIGMATIC: mysterious, cryptic, ambiguous, mystic, uncanny, obscure, inscrutable, unexplainable; Antonyms of ENIGMATIC: understandable, intelligible, obvious, apparent, clear, evident, unmistakable, plain.
Someone or something that is enigmatic is mysterious and difficult to understand. Haley studied her, an enigmatic smile on his face. She starred in one of Welles's most enigmatic films.
Something that's enigmatic is tough to figure out. It's puzzling and even mysterious, like those weird secret college societies, Mona Lisa's smile, or the New York Times crossword.
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adjective. /ˌenɪɡˈmætɪk/ mysterious and difficult to understand. an enigmatic smile. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin. Want to learn more? Find out which words work together and produce more natural-sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
Define enigmatic. enigmatic synonyms, enigmatic pronunciation, enigmatic translation, English dictionary definition of enigmatic. or en·ig·mat·i·cal adj. Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling: a professor's enigmatic grading system.
