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mystical

[mis-ti-kuhl]

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adjective

mystic; occult.

of or pertaining to mystics or mysticism: mystical writings.

spiritually symbolic.

Rare. obscure in meaning; mysterious.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English. See mystic, -al¹

Related forms

mys·ti·cal·ly, adverb

mys·ti·cal·i·ty, mys·ti·cal·ness, noun

an·ti·mys·ti·cal, adjective

an·ti·mys·ti·cal·ly, adverb

an·ti·mys·ti·cal·ness, noun

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hy·per·mys·ti·cal, adjective

hy·per·mys·ti·cal·ly, adverb

hy·per·mys·ti·cal·ness, noun

non·mys·ti·cal, adjective

non·mys·ti·cal·ly, adverb

non·mys·ti·cal·ness, noun

sem·i·mys·ti·cal, adjective

sem·i·mys·ti·cal·ly, adverb

sem·i·mys·ti·cal·ness, noun

un·mys·ti·cal, adjective

un·mys·ti·cal·ly, adverb

un·mys·ti·cal·ness, noun

COLLAPSE

Synonyms
1. See mysterious.

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Example Sentences

To call this a book of mystical poetry is perhaps to give the general reader a false impression of it.

Too often leaders treat technology with mystical aversion.

All religion is concerned in varying degrees with metaphysical ideas, moral norms and mystical experience.

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To call this a book of mystical poetry is perhaps to give the general reader a false impression of it.

Too often leaders treat technology with mystical aversion.

All religion is concerned in varying degrees with metaphysical ideas, moral norms and mystical experience.

The spectacular marginalia is filled with the winds and mystical figures.

America's stunning, sinuous coastlines have long exerted an almost mystical pull on the imaginations of the country's citizens.

There is something mystical about composing on the spot.

And a lot of people live lives based on mystical ideas.

It's not some journey to a mystical wonderland of visions and etherial experience.

He may be as cerebral, but he is also less mystical.

The mist coming off the ocean waves in the distance created a mystical feel to the landscape.

Gravity pushes, it's not some mystical aether force, it's a simple particle.

It is that wondering that makes this photograph mystical.

But each of these three possibilities has at its root the mystical doctrine of universal computation.

Russians ascribe to melons an almost mystical power to purify the body after the summer's overindulgences.

It has a mystical aura of high fashion, high quality and high price.

Our first encounter with the mystical red planet may be only a few years away.

If you value the bird more than yourself, you deserve every word of the mystical climate science.

Another is that the dance is derived from some mystical fertility dance.

Explore an ancient mine and bring its robotic workers back to lifewith mystical po.

Finally here's a truly paradoxically mystical fact about the golden ratio.

They even managed to produce a last flowering of their mystical tradition on the eve of the revolution.

The castle was a double rainbow of mystical vividness.

Namely that it is some mystical governance, a law, even one that may eventually be manipulated.

The premise is that the three main superheroes are the mystical core of their universe.

Its priests are chefs with seemingly mystical abilities to summon fresh fish from all corners of the globe.

Pause in the forgotten valleys and villages of this mystical land of artists and visionaries.

She is a perfect embodiment of the right's anti-science, anti-intellectual, mystical world view.

Together, they defeat a mystical skull from some primitive land that spreads evil everywhere it rolls.

Again and again they climbed back into the boat with tales of a mystical experience.

For a while, but it was eventually washed out by some competing more diffuse mystical notions.

There is nothing mystical or otherworldly about it, no levitation, no out-of-body experience.

The thing is one apt to happen to writers at once mystical and sensuous.

Travel through mystical lands, mysterious places and magical spaces as heavenly voices mesmerize.

The theory was inspired by the study of epilepsy patients in whom temporal lobe seizures induced mystical feelings.

Over the centuries, legends have endowed these stones with mystical properties.

And then there's their power to bring down the world's computer systems through a few mystical keystrokes.

There was, it seems, a medical reality behind the apparent mystical epiphanies and out-of-body experiences described in her work.

The impact of her story about black women oppressed and then liberated was unusually intense and almost mystical.

The mystical bond between humans and horses has endured throughout the.

Nine is a favorite mystical number, and it has favored.

He believes that mystical forces that only he sees are the true causation of everything in the physical world.

People have forever been drawn to the sea for reasons both mystical and workaday.

He exudes a mystical demeanor that must serve him well while working with big architects and their notoriously big egos.

Drtikol used paper and wood figurines as well as photograms and other techniques to express increasingly mystical themes.

The mystical bond between humans and horses has endured throughout.

All of which lend a slightly mystical bent and an understated sweetness to this gentle tale of a boy's artistic awakening.

Its inaccessible location on top of the peak gave the whole complex a feeling of mystical isolation.

But her descendants still seem to enjoy an almost mystical bond with their employees.

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World English Dictionary

mystical (ˈmɪstɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	relating to or characteristic of mysticism
2.	Christianity having a divine or sacred significance that surpasses natural human apprehension
3.	having occult or metaphysical significance, nature, or force
4.	a less common word for mysterious

'mystically

—*adv*

'mysticalness

—n

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Word Origin & History

mystical

late 15c., from mystic + -al. Related: Mystically.

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