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mystickal

mystickal is the obsolete form of mystical.

Meaning of mystical

Adjective

mystical (comparative more mystical, superlative most mystical)

  1. Relating to mystics or mysticism.
  2. Having a spiritual or magical significance that transcends human understanding.
    • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60
  3. Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination.

Forms of mystickal

comparativemore mystickal
superlativemost mystickal

Origin of mystickal

From mystick + -al.

Questions about mystickal

What is mystickal the obsolete form of?
Mystickal is the obsolete form of mystical.

Words near mystickal in the dictionary

  1. mysticize
  2. mysticized
  3. mysticizes
  4. mysticizing
  5. mystick
  6. mystickal
  7. mysticks
  8. mysticly
  9. mysticness
  10. mystics
  11. mystification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mystickal (page history and authors); mystical (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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