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ænigmatic

ænigmatic is the archaic spelling of enigmatic.

Meaning of enigmatic

Adjective

enigmatic (comparative more enigmatic, superlative most enigmatic)

  1. Pertaining to an enigma.
  2. Mysterious.
    • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  3. Defying description.
  4. (variant) Enigmatical.

Forms of ænigmatic

comparativemore ænigmatic
superlativemost ænigmatic

Origin of ænigmatic

From ænigma + -ic.

Questions about ænigmatic

What is ænigmatic the archaic spelling of?
Ænigmatic is the archaic spelling of enigmatic.

Words near ænigmatic in the dictionary

  1. Æneolithic
  2. æneous
  3. ænigma
  4. ænigmas
  5. ænigmata
  6. ænigmatic
  7. ænigmatical
  8. ænigmatically
  9. ænigmatick
  10. ænigmatist
  11. ænigmatists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ænigmatic (page history and authors); enigmatic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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