Intrigued vs Mysterious - What's the difference?
intrigued | mysterious |
(intrigue)
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
* Dr. J. Scott
Of unknown origin.
Having unknown qualities.
Difficult to understand.
Deliberately evasive or enigmatic.
As a verb intrigued
is (intrigue).As an adjective mysterious is
of unknown origin.intrigued
English
Verb
(head)intrigue
English
Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intrigu)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
References
* * English heteronyms ----mysterious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He received a mysterious phone call this morning.
- Our boss is a mysterious man who hardly ever meets with us.
- Why he left without saying goodbye is quite mysterious .
- Stop being mysterious and just tell me what you want.