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mutual adj. 1 reciprocal, reciprocated, requited, interactive,
complementary: I love her and I hope that the feeling is
mutual. 2 common, communal, joint, shared: Gerald is our
mutual friend.
13.6 mysterious...
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mysterious
adj. 1 puzzling, enigmatic, baffling, insoluble, unsolvable,
bewildering, confounding, confusing, perplexing, mystifying,
weird, bizarre, strange, uncanny, curious: A mysterious force
makes the saucer rise off the ground and fly at incredible
speeds. 2 cryptic, arcane, secret, inscrutable, covert, hidden,
furtive, unclear, dark, concealed, occult, inexplicable,
incomprehensible, mystic(al), unknown, unfathomable, mystical,
recondite, abstruse: It is mysterious how the agency
accomplishes its ends.
mystery n. 1 puzzle, enigma, conundrum, riddle, question: How he
escaped from the locked room is a mystery. 2 obscurity,
secrecy, indefiniteness, vagueness, nebulousness, ambiguity,
ambiguousness, inscrutability, inscrutableness: The identity of
the beautiful lady in the green dress is shrouded in mystery. 3
detective story or novel, murder (story), Colloq whodunit:
Joel, who once fancied himself an intellectual, now reads
nothing but mysteries.
mystical adj. 1 allegorical, symbolic(al), mystic, cabbalistic, arcane,
unrevealed, secret, occult, supernatural, esoteric,
other-worldly, preternatural, cryptic, concealed, hidden,
clandestine, private, veiled, ineffable, mysterious: A mystical
spirit dwells in the raven that sits on his shoulder. 2 See
mysterious, 2, above.
mystify v. fool, hoax, humbug, confuse, confound, mix up, bewilder,
stump, puzzle, baffle, Colloq bamboozle, stump, flummox, Slang
beat: We were totally mystified by the unfamiliar symbols on
the wall.