mystique
/mɪˈstiːk/
mystique noun: an aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
Noun
mystique (usually uncountable, plural mystiques)
- An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
- THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In an opening chapter entitled "Portrait", he ends by asking whether there was a mystique about the L.B. & S.C.1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776
- The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment.1963, Betty Friedan, “The Mistaken Choice”, in The Feminine Mystique
mystique meaning in Malayalam
mystique in Malayalam
- charisma, glamour, romance
- നിഗൂഢസൗന്ദര്യം, നിഗൂഢാത്മകത, വ്യക്തിപ്രഭാവം, വശ്യത, ഭാവസൗന്ദര്യം, പകിട്ട്
Examples of mystique in a sentence
- Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching.
- The report divested the organization of its mystique.
- A certain mystique has always been attached to his extraordinary leaps.
Forms of mystique
| plural | mystiques |
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Origin of mystique
Borrowed from French mystique (“a mystic”), from Latin mysticus. See also the doublet mystic.
Words that rhyme with mystique
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- leak
- seek
- bespeak
- pique
- tweak
- reek
- sleek
- geek
- peek
- squeak
- week
- wreak
- boutique
- clique
- creek
- forspeak
- gleek
- unique
- bleak
- cacique
- creak
- critique
- deke
- eek
- eke
- fleak
- on fleek
- respeak
- Tajik
- teak
- technique
- tongue-in-chic
- chic
- cleek
- desqueak
- leek
- malik
- meek
- midweek
- misspeak
- physique
- pratique
- shriek
- speke
- streek
- Zeke
- -speak
- Adam's Peak
Questions about mystique
- What does mystique mean?
- Mystique means an aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
- What is mystique in Malayalam?
- Mystique in Malayalam is നിഗൂഢസൗന്ദര്യം, നിഗൂഢാത്മകത, വ്യക്തിപ്രഭാവം. See Mystique meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is mystique?
- Mystique is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mystique?
- Mystique is pronounced /mɪˈstiːk/.
- What is the plural of mystique?
- The plural of mystique is mystiques.
Words near mystique in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mystique (page history and authors); mystique (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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