1 difficult to understand or explain; strange:
He died in mysterious circumstances. * A mysterious illness is affecting all the animals.
2 (especially of people) strange and interesting because you do not know much about them:
A mysterious young woman is living next door.
3 (of people) not saying much about sth, especially when other people want to know more:
He was being very mysterious about where he was going.
mysteriously adverb:
My watch had mysteriously disappeared. * Mysteriously, the streets were deserted. * She was silent, smiling mysteriously.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is mysterious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mysterious is tagged as adjective.
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