Meaning

Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
2. A riddle, or a difficult problem.
3. Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
4. Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
5. A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
6. Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
7. A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
8. The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.

Example Sentences

I was, and still am, an enigma to myself.

At the heart of all things there is to be found a certain coincidentia oppositorum; and herein, as I have said, lies the key to our problem: the enigma of indeterminism. The astounding fact is that freedom and necessity can coexist;

Tucked inconspicuously away behind the shoal of darkness that hung in those gloomy corners, the silhouetted enigma was ogling him in halcyon silence.

But as he came to know this work during his last months, he also came to a profound understanding of the many enigmas that create a deeply satisfying life.

The enigma that is central to homeopathic medicine has to do with the relationship between dilution and potency.

The 'Real' Borges is difficult to pin down; in a word, he is an enigma.

Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy, begin.

This little story before us is an amplification of that clever enigma, and though essentially a story for children, as its title-page tells us, would beguile many a one much older of a half-hour in the evening.

Word Forms

• enigmas
• enigmata
• aenigma
• ænigma

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