All riddle synonyms
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R r noun riddle
- mystery — anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
- facer — a person or thing that faces.
- abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
- gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
- conundrum — A conundrum is a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
verb riddle
- draw off — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- cataloging — Make a systematic list of (items of the same type).
- infest — to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.
- button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- filter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- cataloged — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.