Vocabulary
Mysterious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.
Urdu meaning
پراسرار، مخفی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Be sanguine that the pointless flare-up wasn`t triggered by some four mysterious hate-mongers who showed up to kill innocent men in Pahalgam only to disappear without trace (as yet) in one of the world`s most militarised and policed places.
- Kennedy this past Tuesday had kicked off a global race to uncover new information that could help shed light on the popular American president`s mysterious and quite public murder during a rally in November 1963.
- It also brought back a devastating memory of another Indian hero succumbing to the mysterious illness, the inimitable cricket legend, Tiger Pataudi.
- It is an unfortunate reality that when parties fall out of favour with the powers that be like the PTI has currently such mysterious attacks, disappearances and detentions targeting their leaders and workers grow in frequency.
- In August last year, Fatima Fariro, a nine-year-old maid, died in mysterious circumstances in Ranipur, located near Khairpur.
Synonyms
puzzling, strange, peculiar, curious, funny, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, mystifying, inexplicable
Curator example
“his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances”
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