enigmas

Meaning of enigmas

plural noun
  1. a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.
    Madeleine was still an enigma to him

mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek ainigma, from ainissesthai ‘speak allusively’, from ainos ‘fable’.

Information about enigmas

Hyphenation of enigmas

enig-mas

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • enigmas is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

enigmas synonyms

Meaning something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain:

mystery

Meaning a person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma:

puzzle

Meaning a person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain:

riddle

Meaning a confusing and difficult problem or question:

conundrum

Meaning a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true:

paradox

Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:

problem

Meaning a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information:

question

Meaning a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation:

quandary

Meaning a person who poses; a poseur:

poser

Meaning a person who makes fun of or provokes others in a playful or unkind way:

teaser

Meaning a puzzling question:

stumper

Anagrams of enigmas

gamines, Magenis, measing, seaming

Words that rhyme with enigmas

agmas, magmas, stalagmas, syntagmas, egmas, smegmas, epoxystigmas, sigmas, sterigmas, stigmas, dogmas, zeugmas, kerygmas

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