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Mysterious Mysteriously Strange Understood Died Circumstances Illness Confined

query
Someone or something that is m_________ is strange and is not known about or understood .Someone or something that is mysterious is strange and is not known about or understood .
He died in mysterious circumstances.
A mysterious illness confined him to bed for over a month.
The whole thing seems very mysterious.
He began to feel sympathy for this slightly mysterious man.
A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.
word mysterious
full-definition
adjective
Someone or something that is mysterious is strange and is not known about or understood .
He died in mysterious circumstances.
A mysterious illness confined him to bed for over a month.
The whole thing seems very mysterious.
He began to feel sympathy for this slightly mysterious man.
A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.
If someone is mysterious about something, they deliberately do not talk much about it, sometimes because they want to make people more interested in it.
As for his job–well, he was very mysterious about it.
Asked what she meant, she said mysteriously: 'Work it out for yourself'.
inflections mysteriouslymysteriously
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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