enigmatic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: en=ig=mat=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

enigmatic, a. [Cf. F. énigmatique.].

 Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; not clear to the understanding; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer; I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatical comment until much later; prophetic texts so enigmatical that their meaning has been disputed for centuries.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

enigmatic

able, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, arcane, baffling, beguiling, bewildering, bothering, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, confounding, confusing, cryptic, dark, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, equivocal, equivocatory, esoteric, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, incalculable, incognizable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, intricate, ironic, latent, marvelous, miraculous, multivocal, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, occult, outlandish, passing strange, perplexing, perturbing, phenomenal, polysemantic, polysemous, problematic, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, restricted, riddling, sealed, secret, sensational, smothered, sphinxlike, stifled, strange, striking, stupendous, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, unbreatheable, uncertain, uncharted, unclassified, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulgable, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified, unimaginable, uninvestigated, unique, unknowable, unknown, unperceived, unplumbed, unprecedented, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, unsuspected, untellable, untold, untouched, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, upsetting, virgin, wonderful, wondrous

ROGET THESAURUS

enigmatic

Uncertainty

N uncertainty, incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness, hesitation, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment, timidity, vacillation, diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness, haze, fog, obscurity, ambiguity, contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission, precariousness, fallibility, uncertain, casual, random, changeable, doubtful, dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion, controvertible, in question, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, ambiguous, equivocal, undefined, undefinable, confused, mystic, oracular, dazed, perplexing, enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable), fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable, unreliable, untrustworthy, contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional, provisional, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze, bushed, off the track, ignorant, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, puzzled, lost, abroad, d_esorient_e, distracted, distraught, pendente lite, sub spe rati, Heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagr.

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.