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enigmatic

US/ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/

enigmatic adjective: pertaining to an enigma.

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.

enigmatic meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

enigmatic in Urdu

مبہم

enigmatic in Bengali

রহস্যময়, দুর্বোধ্য

enigmatic in Malayalam

inscrutable, mysterious, puzzling
കടങ്കഥപോലുള്ള, പ്രഹേളികയായ, ദുർഗ്രഹമായ, നിഗൂഢമായ, ദുരൂഹമായ, ദുരവഗാഹ

Examples of enigmatic in a sentence

  • Spielberg’s autobiographical feature “The Fabelmans,” where the enigmatic if not eldritch Mr.
  • He is both prolific and enigmatic, disappearing into a dazzling range of characters.
  • Type erasure is often seen as a mysterious, enigmatic programming technique.

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Forms of enigmatic

comparativemore enigmatic
superlativemost enigmatic
alternative form (archaic)aenigmatic
alternative form (archaic)ænigmatic
alternative form (obsolete)ænigmatick
alternative form (obsolete)enigmatick

Origin of enigmatic

From Latin aenigmaticus and French énigmatique, from Ancient Greek αἰνιγματικός (ainigmatikós); equivalent to enigma + -tic.

Words formed from enigmatic

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Questions about enigmatic

What does enigmatic mean?
Enigmatic means pertaining to an enigma.
What is enigmatic in Urdu?
Enigmatic in Urdu is مبہم. See Enigmatic meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is enigmatic?
Enigmatic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce enigmatic?
Enigmatic is pronounced /ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/ (US).

Words near enigmatic in the dictionary

  1. Enigma machine
  2. Enigma machines
  3. enigmalike
  4. enigmas
  5. enigmata
  6. enigmatic
  7. enigmatic canon
  8. enigmatic canons
  9. enigmatical
  10. enigmatical canon
  11. enigmatical canons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enigmatic (page history and authors); enigmatic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Enigmatic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enigmatic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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