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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzlingadjective

    not clear to the understanding

    "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"

Wiktionary

  1. enigmaticaladjective

    Pertaining to an enigma.

  2. enigmaticaladjective

    Alternate of enigmatic.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Enigmaticaladjective

    Etymology: from enigma.

    Your answer, sir, is enigmatical. William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Noth.

    Enigmatical deliveries comprehend useful verities; but being mistaken by liberal expositors at first, they have been misunderstood by most since. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

    Faith here is the assent to those things which come to us by hearing, and are so believed by adherence, or dark enigmatical knowledge, but hereafter are seen or known demonstratively. Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism.

ChatGPT

  1. enigmatical

    Enigmatical refers to something that is puzzling, mysterious, or difficult to understand or interpret. This term is often used to describe situations, statements, or behaviors that are ambiguous, cryptic or perplexing in nature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Enigmaticaladjective

    relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of enigmatical in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of enigmatical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of enigmatical in a Sentence

  1. Athenus:

    It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

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