[ぬえてき(鵺的;ぬえ的);ヌエてき(ヌエ的), nueteki ( nue teki ; nue teki ); nue teki ( nue teki )] (adj-na) mysterious; strange; sphinx-like; enigmatic; noncommital [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Enigmatic \E`nig*mat"ic\ (?; 277), Enigmatical
\E`nig*mat"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]nigmatique.]
Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or
accounted for; darkly expressed; not clear to the
understanding; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer;
I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatical comment until
much later; prophetic texts so enigmatical that their meaning
has been disputed for centuries.
Syn: dark, obscure, puzzling.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enigmatic
adj 1: 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" [syn: {enigmatic}, {enigmatical},
{puzzling}]
2: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular
sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might
have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: {enigmatic},
{oracular}]
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