mystifying (root: mystify)

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Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective mystifying has 1 sense

mystifying(s = adj.all) cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious - of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

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THESAURUS

mystifying

baffling, bewildering, bothering, confounding, confusing, dark, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, intricate, mysterious, perplexing, perturbing, problematic, puzzling, upsetting

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