Definitions for mystery

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mystery mys·ter·y

Spelling: [mis-tuh-ree, -tree]

IPA: /ˈmɪs tə ri, -tri/

Mystery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in mystery (emrstyy).

Definitions for mystery

noun

1. anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown:
2. any affair, thing, or person that presents features or qualities so obscure as to arouse curiosity or speculation:
3. a novel, short story, play, or film whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains puzzlingly unsettled until the very end:
4. obscure, puzzling, or mysterious quality or character:
5. any truth that is unknowable except by divine revelation.
6. a sacramental rite. the Eucharist.
7. an incident or scene in connection with the life of Christ, regarded as of special significance:
8. any of the 15 events in the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary meditated upon during the recitation of the rosary.
9. mysteries. ancient religions that admitted candidates by secret rites and rituals the meaning of which was known only to initiated worshipers. any rites or secrets known only to those initiated: (in the Christian religion) the Eucharistic elements.
10. mystery play.
11. a craft or trade.
12. a guild, as of merchants.

Origin of mystery

1275-1325; Middle English mysterie Latin mystērium Greek mystḗrion, equivalent to mýs(tēs) (see mystic) + -tērion noun suffix

Examples for mystery

The fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the 162 souls on board is a tragedy, but it will not remain a mystery for much longer.

Will Nature teach them the mystery of a plate of turtle-soup?

The difference too is radical; it goes to the heart of the mystery.

But his motives for shooting John Paul II have remained a mystery shrouded in multiple conspiracy theories.

"Marvellous, indeed, is the mystery of our being," exclaimed Anaxagoras.

From that day the fate of Leichardt and his companions has been involved in mystery.

It was a mystery to devout Christians in the early Church, too.

Due to the video lacking audio, what they were fighting about remains a mystery—“was Jay cheating?”

It is the old land of mystery and wonder which the Greeks called Mesopotamia.

So far, the mystery man in the morgue has not been identified, and neither has Mr. Douli.