Definitions for Mystic

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Mystic mys·tic

Spelling: [mis-tik]

IPA: /ˈmɪs tɪk/

Mystic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in Mystic (cimsty).

Definitions for Mystic

noun

1. a person who claims to attain, or believes in the possibility of attaining, insight into mysteries transcending ordinary human knowledge, as by direct communication with the divine or immediate intuition in a state of spiritual ecstasy.
2. a person initiated into religious mysteries.
3. a section of Groton, in SE Connecticut: maritime museum.

adjective

1. involving or characterized by esoteric, otherworldly, or symbolic practices or content, as certain religious ceremonies and art; spiritually significant; ethereal.
2. of the nature of or pertaining to mysteries known only to the initiated:
3. of occult character, power, or significance:
4. of obscure or mysterious character or significance.
5. of or relating to mystics or mysticism.

Origin of Mystic

1275-1325; Middle English mystik Latin mysticus Greek mystikós, equivalent to mýst(ēs) an initiate into the mysteries + -ikos -ic; akin to myeîn to initiate, teach

Examples for Mystic

It is bitter in Baudelaire, sweet and plaintive in Lamartine, mystic in Verlaine.

But they are, above all, the thoughts of a mystic, moving in a Divine presence.

The other night, quite by chance, I came across some lines in Rumi, the 13th-century poet—a Sufi mystic from Persia.

It revealed his vulnerability to ideas, ideology, and mystic hoo-ha.

"The yuppies are coming," a cop complains in mystic River, like a 21st-century Paul Revere.

This, then, was that mystic past against which her figure had stood out!

There was that mystic depth of expression which comes from ancient Egypt.

At Temple, Coltrane no longer operated as a jazz artist improvising melodies, but more like a mystic on a vision quest.

You were in a poppy sleep on the mystic flowers of ancient dreams.

Then bed down in the seaside town of mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the Steamboat Inn.