Enigmatical

Definition: Enigmatical

Enigmatical

Adjective

1. Not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries".

Date "enigmatical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonyms: Enigmatical

Synonyms: enigmatic (adj), puzzling (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Equivocalness	Adjective: equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous, homonymous; double-tongued; (lying); enigmatical, indeterminate.
Unintelligibility	Illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret); indecipherable.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enigmatical

English words defined with "enigmatical": enigmatical canon. (references)

Specialty definitions using "enigmatical": CONUNDRUMS. (references)

"Enigmatical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Enigmatical" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "enigmatical": enigmatical canon. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "enigmatical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		神秘 (Arcane, Enigmatic, Esoteric, Mystical). (various references)

German		rätselhafte. (various references)

Hungarian		rejtélyes (baffling, cryptic, enigmatic, inscrutable, mysterious, puzzling, recondite, secret, uncanny). (various references)

Manx		doo-ocklagh (enigmatic). (various references)

Pig Latin		enigmaticalay

Romanian		enigmatic (ambiguous, enigmatic, inscrutable, obscure, riddling, unintelligible), misterios (awsome, daedal, dark, darkly, deep, enigmatically, hidden, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, occult, secret, uncanny, unsearchable). (various references)

Turkish		esrarengiz (bottomless, eerie, eery, enigmatic, mysterious, uncanny, veiled in secrecy, weird), gizemli (enigmatic, mysterious, mystic, secret, secretive, sphinxlike), bilmece gibi (enigmatic, puzzling). (various references)

Ukranian		загадковий (baffling, enigmatic, oracular, oraculous, problematic, problematical). (various references)

Vietnamese		khó hiểu (deep, delphian, delphic, enigmatic, incomprehensible, intricate, mysterious, oracular, perplexed, recondite, riddling, unintelligible, weird), bí ẩn (deep, enigmatic, mysterious, riddling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enigmatical": enigmatically. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-t"
	-1 letter: emaciating.
	-2 letters: analgetic, enigmatic, genitalia, genitalic, laciniate, melanitic, militance.
	-3 letters: actiniae, agential, agminate, alginate, analcime, analcite, angelica, animalic, antalgic, antimale, calamine, calamint, calamite, claimant, claiming, cleating, emailing, enigmata, glaciate, imaginal, laitance, laminate, ligament, limacine, limnetic, magician, magnetic, metaling, tegminal.
	-4 letters: actinal, actinia, agnatic, ailment, aliment, amentia, anaemic, angelic, anglice, animate, atingle, calming, camelia, catling, ceiling, ciliate, clamant, climate, elating, galenic, gamelan, gametic, gateman, gelatin, geminal, genital, ignatia, imagine, intagli, intimae, intimal, iteming, lactean, laminae, lignite, magenta, magical, magnate, mailing, malting, manacle, matinal, melanic, melting, metical, milting, mintage, nametag, nematic, tailing, talcing, teaming, tegmina.
	-5 letters: acetal, acetin, acting, aecial, agamic, agleam, agnail, agnate, aiglet, ailing, aiming, aminic, anemia, anemic, animal, anlace, anlage, atelic, caiman, calami, camail, camlet, cantle, catena, catlin, centai, cental, cinema, citing, client, eating, elicit, enatic, enigma, entail, etamin, galena, gamine, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, gimlet, glance, iceman, ignite, incage, incite, ingate, inlace, inmate, intima, intime, italic, lacing, lactam, lament, lamiae, lamina, laming, lanate, lancet, lectin, legman, lentic, ligate, limina, liming, limnic, linage, lingam, macing, magian, magnet, malate, malice, malign, maline, manage, mangel, mangle, maniac, manila, mantel, mantic, mantle, mating, meatal, menial, mental, meting, milage, mingle, nilgai, taenia, tamale, tamein, taming, tangle, tenail, tieing, tiling, timing, tincal, tineal, tingle.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-t"
	+2 letters: enigmatically.
	+4 letters: miscegenational, reacclimatizing.
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