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Definition

something mysterious that seems unexplainable

The word may also be seen in the proper noun, Enigma Machine. It refers to an encryption device used by Nazi Germany during the second world war. Britain eventually learned to unencrypt messages sent with the machine, but kept that ability a secret.

As Churchill said about Russia, it is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

enigma = something mysterious that seems unexplainable

It is an enigma. I don't understand it.

enigma = something mysterious that seems unexplainable

But his thoughts seemed to stumble in the darkness of some not-solved enigma, and soon he fell silent.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
M. C. Escher
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
He sent her a quiet, enigmatic look.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

enigmatic = mysterious (not understandable)

Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing

enigmatical = mysterious and seemingly unexplainable

"An enigma," said the sergeant.
David Almond -- Clay

enigma = something mysterious that seems unexplainable

When she did speak, her words were enigmatical, "Something is going out."
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

enigmatical = mysterious

She has to be because she's the enigma at the centre of the mystery
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

enigma = mystery (something that seems unexplainable)

As for that enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel, what is he to you?
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel

enigmatic = mysterious

That was just another of the enigmas he never solved.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End

enigmas = unexplainable things

Could she have succeeded in escaping from that enigmatic room?
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

enigmatic = mysterious and seeming unexplainable

...the enigma of what such a little gentleman could have done that deserved a penalty.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

enigma = something mysterious that seems unexplainable

Poirot smiled rather enigmatically.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot

enigmatically = in a mysterious manner that seems unexplainable

I watched curiously as an enigmatic range of emotions flitted across her face.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

enigmatic = mysterious and seeming unexplainable

He had simply babbled on uttering empty phrases, letting slip a few enigmatic words and again reverting to incoherence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

enigmatic = mysterious and seeming unexplainable

that answer planted an enigma in Fernanda's heart that she was never able to clarify.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

enigma = unexplainable mystery

Paris traffic is an endless enigma regardless of the hour of day or night.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

enigma = mystery

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