ENIGMATIC


Meaning of ENIGMATIC in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

Everything carries a strangeness as enigmatic as the vision of Constantina, poised with her knife above the chocolate-roll.

■ NOUN

smile

She smiled that enigmatic smile again as I countered with my bishop's pawn.

Rafiq did not speak but stood looking at his two colleagues, an enigmatic smile on his face.

His face wore that same enigmatic smile , but he did not speak.

He didn't say anything, he just smiled his quiet, enigmatic smile and returned to his paper.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an enigmatic smile

Ever since the start of the journey Ahamado had remained enigmatic , silent and unforthcoming.

Freud remains today an enigmatic figure.

He was fascinated by the enigmatic actress.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His face wore that same enigmatic smile, but he did not speak.

Rafiq did not speak but stood looking at his two colleagues, an enigmatic smile on his face.

She presented him with barrier after barrier of enigmatic remarks, as now.

She smiled that enigmatic smile again as I countered with my bishop's pawn.

Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.

Still, he is impressive as the surly, enigmatic intellectual who offers Jane a glimmer of hope for a better life.

The books they marked were returned, probably not fully read, but with these enigmatic new chapters unwittingly added.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.