Category: Synonyms

Mystical, mystic, anagogic, cabalistic are comparable when they denote having a meaning or character hidden from all except those who enjoy profound spiritual insight or are spiritually initiated.

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Mystery, problem, enigma, riddle, puzzle, conundrum are comparable when they denote something which baffles or perplexes and challenges one's power to solve it.

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Mysterious, inscrutable, arcane mean beyond one's power to discover, understand, or explain.

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Museum, library, gallery, archives, treasury are comparable but not synonymous terms when they mean a place serving as a repository for monuments (see DOCUMENT 1 for this sense) of the past.

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Muscular, brawny, sinewy, athletic, burly, husky are applied to persons in the sense of strong and powerful in build or physique.

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Multitude, army, host, legion mean, both in the singular and plural, a very large number of persons or things.

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Moving, impressive, poignant, affecting, touching, pathetic are comparable when they mean having the power to excite or the effect of exciting deep and usually saddening and solemn emotion.

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Move, remove, shift, transfer are comparable when they mean to change or to cause to change from one place to another.

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Move, actuate, drive, impel are comparable when they mean to set or keep going or in motion.

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Movable, mobile, motive mean capable of moving or of being moved.

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Mountain, mount, peak, alp, volcano, mesa denote a relatively steep and high elevation of land.

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Motive, spring, impulse, incentive, inducement, spur, goad all denote a stimulus inciting or prompting a person to act or behave in a definite way.

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