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enigma | American Dictionary

enigma
noun[ C ]
us/ɪˈnɪɡ·mə/
someone or something that is mysterious and impossible to understand:
He is an enigma to most people.

enigmatic

adjectiveus/ˌen·ɪɡˈmæt̬·ɪk/
an enigmatic smile

Examples of enigma

enigma
Adding to "the enigma of soil animal diversity": fungal feeders and saprophagous soil invertebrates prefer similar food substrates.
The other possibilities should also be borne in mind when investigating tick toxicoses as the enigma of toxin origins for most tick toxins still exists.
While questions remain concerning the dynamics of turbulent decay downstream from a grid, in comparison the dynamics of turbulent flames are a complete enigma.
This enigma would be solved if one considers dourine as the chronic form of both diseases.
Yet why bother to craft such an elaborate enigma for the title page?
The basic enigma of music remains how its temporality may lead to an experiential likeliness of that which is beyond time.
This indifference, however, is an enigma for thought.
For those who do not subscribe to the natural law theory, the enigma is indecipherable.
The poem thus begins with a small enigma.
With all these multiple uses and potential ways of valuing musical enigmas, it is perhaps surprising that more are not found in print.
A possible solution to this enigma is that the concentration of greenhouse gasses was much higher in the early atmosphere.
Recent studies of his diplomacy embroider the enigma rather than unravelling it.
The enigma version is in three parts; one may assume that a fourth part was added to the motet before its 1562 publication.
Cerone's enigmas are intricate and impressive, and they must have been hugely expensive to produce.
He cites numerous collections and studies of sixteenthand seventeenth-century enigmas and riddles.
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