English dictionary: words starting with m - page 434

Meanings of Mystax:

noun

A line of stiff hairs or bristles on the mouthparts of certain flies.

Meanings of Mysteriarch:

noun

A person who presides over mysteries.

Meanings of Mysteries:

noun

Something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

Usage examples:

The mysteries of outer space

Meanings of Mysteriosophy:

noun

A system of doctrine concerning religious mysteries.

Meanings of Mysterious:

adjective

Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.

Usage examples:

His colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances

Meanings of Mysteriously:

adverb

In a way that is difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.

Usage examples:

Her boyfriend mysteriously disappeared

Meanings of Mystery:

noun

Something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

Usage examples:

The mysteries of outer space

Meanings of Mystery-tour:

noun

A short journey, especially with a group of other people in a bus, to visit places that are kept secret from you until you get there

Meanings of Mystes:

noun

A person initiated into mysteries, especially religious mysteries.

Meanings of Mystic:

noun

A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

Usage examples:

The poetry of the 16th-century spanish mystic, st john of the cross

adjective

Another term for mystical.

Meanings of Mystical:

adjective

Relating to mystics or religious mysticism.

Usage examples:

The mystical theology of richard rolle

Meanings of Mysticality:

noun

The quality of being mystical; mystical effect.

Meanings of Mysticalness:

noun

The quality or condition of being mystical; = mysticality .

Meanings of Mysticeti:

plural noun

A division of the whales that comprises the baleen whales.

Usage examples:

Modern whales may be divided into two subgroups: the odontoceti (toothed whales) and the mysticeti …

Meanings of Mysticise:

verb

To make mystical; to give a mystic meaning to, introduce a mystical element into.

Meanings of Mysticism:

noun

Belief that union with or absorption into the deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.

Usage examples:

St theresa's writings were part of the tradition of christian mysticism

Meanings of Mysticize:

verb

To make mystical; to give a mystic meaning to, introduce a mystical element into.

Meanings of Mysticized:

verb

To make mystical; to give a mystic meaning to, introduce a mystical element into.

Meanings of Mysticizing:

adjective

Inclining towards or supporting a mystical interpretation of something.

Meanings of Mysticly:

adverb

Mystically.

Meanings of Mystics:

noun

A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

Usage examples:

The poetry of the 16th-century spanish mystic, st john of the cross

Meanings of Mystific:

adjective

Mysterious, mystifying.

Meanings of Mystification:

noun

The state of feeling very confused because someone or something is impossible to understand

Usage examples:

And then, to the audience's mystification, the band suddenly stopped playing.

Meanings of Mystificator:

noun

Mystifier.

Meanings of Mystificatory:

adjective

Causing mystification; having the effect of confusing or bewildering a person.