Synonyms:
mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic
Meaning: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
mystic, religious_mystic
Meaning: someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension
Usage examples
How the solemn splendors of the half notes weave an atmosphere of mystic tragedy!
Dick waved his mahl-stick in mystic circles and went to the sideboard for a drink.
No layman may approach the sacred spot while the mystic ceremony is being performed.
The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire.
Medea, with a newly cut spray of juniper dipped in a mystic brew, touched its deadly eyes.
What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
It is a portrait from the life--it has the mystic charm of fulfilled reality, how far beyond the fairest ideals ever born of thought!
'As bats in hollow of mystic cavern, whenever any of them has dropped out of the string and falls from the rock, fly shrilling and cling to one another, so did they with shrilling cry hold together as they moved.'
Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill, Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning: Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same, The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.
Our antiquaries abandon time for distance; our very fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the title-page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so many letters of recommendation.