- sphinxlike
- adjective see sphinx
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
sphinxlike
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sphinxlike — adjective a) Like a sphinx, or like that of a sphinx. b) Mysterious; scheming; having a deceptive outward appearance … Wiktionary
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mysterious — I adjective abstruse, arcane, arcanus, baffling, cabalistic, clandestine, cloaked, coded, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, disguised, enigmatic, enigmatical, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, ineffable, inexplicable,… … Law dictionary
cryptic — Synonyms and related words: abstruse, arcane, between the lines, cabalistic, cabbalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, covert, dark, delitescent, dormant, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hermetic, hibernating, hidden,… … Moby Thesaurus
enigmatic — Synonyms and related words: able, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, arcane, baffling, beguiling, bewildering, bothering, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, confounding, confusing, cryptic, dark, discomposing,… … Moby Thesaurus
perplexing — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, arcane, baffling, bewildering, bothering, complex, complicated, confounding, confusing, convoluted, cryptic, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic,… … Moby Thesaurus
puzzling — Synonyms and related words: able, abstruse, ambiguous, baffling, beguiling, bewildering, bothering, confounding, confusing, contradictory, cryptic, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic,… … Moby Thesaurus
