mystic

• mystick (archaic)
• mystical (adjective)

From Old French mistique, from Latin mysticus, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated”). Doublet of mystique.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪstɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk

mystic (comparative more mystic, superlative most mystic)

1. Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.

   a mystic dance

2. Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
   • 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 245:

     Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?

• semimystic

mystic (plural mystics)

1. Someone who practices mysticism.

• mysterious
• mystery
• mystical
• mysticism
• mystify
• mystique

• mystic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “mystic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “mystic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• mystic at OneLook Dictionary Search