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Adjective mystifying has 1 sense
- cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying - of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
Antonym: explicable (indirect, via inexplicable)
Verb mystify has 2 senses
- perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
--1 is one way to confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
Sample sentences:
The bad news will mystify him
The good news will mystify her
The performance is likely to mystify Sue
- mystify - make mysterious; "mystify the story"
--2 is one way to obscure, bedim, overcloud
Antonyms: demystify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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