📖 Определения и значения для слова mystery
📒 something that is difficult to understand or to explain
- It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of this century.
- Their motives remain a mystery.
- She tried to solve the mystery of the boy's sudden death.
📒 a person or thing that is strange and interesting because you do not know much about them or it
- He's a bit of a mystery.
- There was a mystery guest on the programme.
- The mystery man's identity remains hidden.
📒 the quality of being difficult to understand or to explain, especially when this makes somebody/something seem interesting and exciting
- Mystery surrounds her disappearance.
- His past is shrouded in mystery (= not much is known about it).
- The dark glasses give her an air of mystery.
📒 a story, a film or a play in which crimes and strange events are only explained at the end
- He is the author of several murder mysteries.
- The film is based on Daphne DuMaurier's mystery novel, ‘Rebecca’.
📒 secret religious ceremonies; secret knowledge
- (figurative) the teacher who initiated me into the mysteries of mathematics
📒 a religious belief that cannot be explained or proved in a scientific way
- the mystery of creation