[ adjective ]
■ having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence
■ beyond ordinary understanding
e.g.)
・mysterious symbols
・the mystical style of Blake
・occult lore
・the secret learning of the ancients
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mysterious
,
mystic
,
mystical
,
occult
,
orphic
,
secret
[ adjective ]
■ being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected
■ slightly odd or even a bit weird
e.g.)
・a strange exaltation that was indefinable
・a strange fantastical mind
・what a strange sense of humor she has
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strange
,
unusual
[ adjective ]
■ suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
e.g.)
・an eldritch screech
・the three weird sisters
・stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
・an unearthly light
・he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din
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eldritch
,
uncanny
,
unearthly
,
weird
[ noun ]
■ ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion
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grotesqueness
,
grotesquerie
,
grotesquery
[ noun ]
■ the quality of being alien or not native
e.g.)
・the strangeness of a foreigner
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curiousness
,
foreignness
,
strangeness
[ noun ]
■ an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
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monster
[ noun ]
■ a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
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freak
,
lusus naturae
,
monster
,
monstrosity
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