Vocabulary
Mysterious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.
Urdu meaning
پراسرار، مخفی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Delhi Police wasted no time in filing an FIR over the mysterious surfacing of a `nonexistent book`.
Dawn Editorials —
Good parliament, bad parliament
— 2026-02-17
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Remember that Hugo Chávez was also kidnapped in a coup staged by the CIA.But his people rallied and Chávez returned to lead the country until his mysterious early death.
Dawn Editorials —
Trump`s overplayed hand
— 2026-01-06
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They are an amazing mysterious world worth paying attention to. The wnter is an educationist with an interest in the study of religion and philosophy
Dawn Editorials —
Exploring dreams
— 2025-12-05
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Back in 2022, he was killed under mysterious circumstances in Kenya, far away from Pakistan.
Dawn Editorials —
Journalism`s burden
— 2025-10-28
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Be sanguine that the pointless flare-up wasn`t triggered by some four mysterious hate-mongers who showed up to kill innocent men in Pahalgam only to disappear without trace (as yet) in one of the world`s most militarised and policed places.
Dawn Editorials —
Between Red Square & Pahalgam
— 2025-05-13
Synonyms
puzzling, strange, peculiar, curious, funny, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, mystifying, inexplicable
Curator example
“his colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances”
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