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enigmatical

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en·ig·mat·ic  (ng-mtk) or en·ig·mat·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling: a professor's enigmatic grading system. See Synonyms at ambiguous.
[Greek ainigmatikos, from ainigma, ainigmat-, riddle; see enigma.]
enig·mati·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.enigmatical - 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"
enigmatic, puzzling
uncomprehensible, incomprehensible - difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
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Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
She had been led through the best galleries, had been taken to the chief points of view, had been shown the grandest ruins and the most glorious churches, and she had ended by oftenest choosing to drive out to the Campagna where she could feel alone with the earth and sky, away-from the oppressive masquerade of ages, in which her own life too seemed to become a masque with enigmatical costumes.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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