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mystical

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mys=ti=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

mysticala. [L. mysticus, Gr. belonging to secret rites, from one initiated: cf. F. mystique. See 1st Mystery, Misty.].
  •  Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.  [1913 Webster]
    "Heaven's numerous hierarchy span
    The mystic gulf from God to man.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.  [1913 Webster]
    "Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body."  [1913 Webster]
  •  employing mysticism; as, mystical intuition; mystical explanations; -- contrasted to logical, rational, analytical.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mystical, adj. of mystics or mysticism.

Derivative
mystically adv.

THESAURUS

mystical

absolute, abysmal, allegorical, anagogic, arcane, between the lines, cabalic, cabalistic, cabbalistic, categorical, clandestine, concealed, covert, cryptic, deep, delitescent, divine, dormant, enwrapped in mystery, epiphanic, esoteric, furtive, hibernating, hidden, hole-and-corner, holy, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, indefinable, ineffable, inexplicable, inextricable, insoluble, insolvable, latent, lurking, metaphysic, miraculous, muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscured, occult, possible, potential, preternatural, private, profound, sacred, secret, sleeping, sneak, spiritual, stealthy, submerged, supernatural, supranatural, symbolical, theosophical, theosophist, ultimate, unaccountable, undefinable, under the surface, underlying, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unmanifested, unrevealed, unsolvable, veiled, virtual

ROGET THESAURUS

mystical

Unintelligibility

N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.


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