enigma English

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enigma Noun

— An enigma is something that is mysterious, puzzling, or cannot be explained. That man is an enigma; I never know what he's going to do next.

— An enigma is a riddle, or a difficult problem.

enigma

— noun (= mystery, secret) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained how it got out is a mystery it remains one of nature's secrets

— noun (= riddle) a difficult problem

Synonyms enigma synonyms

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enigma English » English

riddle

puzzle

mystery

conundrum

problem

closed book

brain-teaser

secret

quiz

puzzler

jigsaw puzzle

why

tickler

quibble

question

profound secret

poser

paradox

inconceivable

brain teaser

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Riddle

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  riddle conundrum enigma puzzle problem

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Simple sentences

Sometimes I am an enigma to myself.

Tom is an enigma.

Movie subtitles

You will not remain an enigma!

He disguises it and hides it in an enigma formed by a woman, a key. and a knife.

Why, then, tear up the mystical enigma, if you, me and everyone, sooner or later, will inexorably know it?

There's an enigma in your life.

Meadows and no meteor craters. The whole place is an enigma, biologically and culturally.

It went on like that for years. A true enigma.

That's right. But she's an enigma to me.

But I am an enigma.

And I want to be an enigma forever.

It's a real enigma.

Enigma!

Frozen enigma turns to incandescent love as this young English girl from Haslemere, scarcely out of school, melts the barbarous heart of a cruel desert sheikh.

All thatwe know is that he's an enigma.

Enigma?

For the police and for history the tragedy of Krantz remained an enigma.

These are only my assumptions. The Venusians are, or rather were, so much more advanced that we're facing an enigma.

Enigma buried in the sand- a question mark with broken wings that lies in silent grace as a marker in a desert shrine.

And in these varying expressions and on the faces that reflect them, can thus be seen the whole enigma of the Hungarian people.

As of its arrival, it became an enigma, a seven-ton puzzle made out of aluminum, steel, wire and a few thousand other component parts none of which add up to the right thing.

He said he would like to ask you about the Imperial Navy enigma.

I had never forgotten her body because her soul had remained an enigma for me.

A true enigma.

But she's an enigma to me.

But in the morning I flared an enigma in her eyes.

Perhaps you sir, can unravel this enigma?

We come here humbly as it were, seeking the answer to a great human enigma.

I'm a stranger. an unknown person. an enigma. and this pitiful cadet whose wife I will be doesn't know me at all!

I've solved a lot of problems, but that boy is an enigma.

The cause is an enigma. We must know.

The whole place is an enigma, biologically and culturally.

Er, but tonight, the enigma will be solved.

But Benilde was always an enigma for me.

Sebastian's faith was an enigma to me at the time but not one that I felt particularly concerned to solve.

An object, which has enigma built into it.

News and current affairs

Pain is a familiar experience for everyone, but its nature remains a troubling enigma for sufferers and scientists alike.

Today, however, more than four years into a credit crisis, a conspicuous enigma calls this legacy into question.

Still, we brazenly drop this enigma into the first days of a first-year course without batting an eye.