adv
Meaning 1
In a mysterious manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mysteriously
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adverb
Meaning 2
in a cryptic manner he said cryptically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we will meet again,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cryptically, enigmatically
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English misteriusly, equivalent to mysterious + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: misteriosament — in a mysterious manner
- Czech: tajemně — in a mysterious manner
- Czech: záhadně — in a mysterious manner
- Czech: tajuplně — in a mysterious manner
- Dutch: mysterieus — in a mysterious manner
- Esperanto: mistere — in a mysterious manner
- Finnish: salaperäisesti — in a mysterious manner
- Finnish: mystisesti — in a mysterious manner
- French: mystérieusement — in a mysterious manner
- Galician: misteriosamente — in a mysterious manner
- German: mysteriös — in a mysterious manner
- German: mysteriöserweise — in a mysterious manner
- Greek: μυστηριωδώς (mystiriodós) — in a mysterious manner
- Italian: misteriosamente — in a mysterious manner
- Polish: tajemniczo — in a mysterious manner
- Polish: zagadkowo — in a mysterious manner
- Portuguese: misteriosamente — in a mysterious manner
- Russian: таи́нственно (taínstvenno) — in a mysterious manner
- Russian: зага́дочно (zagádočno) — in a mysterious manner
- Spanish: misteriosamente — in a mysterious manner
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