[
US
/ɪˈnɪɡmə/
]
[ UK /ɛnˈɪɡmɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnˈɪɡmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a difficult problem
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something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
how it got out is a mystery
it remains one of nature's secrets
How To Use enigma In A Sentence
- She is an enigma wrapped in a riddle trapped in a really bad haircut. Times, Sunday Times
- Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
- You beautiful enigma, you Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, you little house on the prairie of the existential oversoul.
- And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
- At dawn alert next day Suwanti chained the dogs away from a round jungle-green enigma then bowled the baby into the hedge to its kind.
- That explains the enigmatic smile. The Sun
- The Enigma machine looked like a typewriter in a wooden box, with an electric current travelling from the keyboard through a set of rotors and a plugboard to light up the ‘code’ alphabet.
- Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
- She seemed to exist in a rarefied air of lonely but enigmatic beauty. Times, Sunday Times
- Mom and dad are setting the table for supper, a weird enigmatic smile on their face.
