mystify

Other forms of mystify

past tense or participle

mystified

present participle

mystifying·

third person

mystifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mystify

What does mystify mean?

mystify means "be a mystery or bewildering to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mystify?

mystify has 3 syllables: mys-ti-fy. The stress falls on "mys". In IPA it is /ˈmɪstəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for mystify?

Close synonyms include perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of mystify?

The recorded antonyms are demystify.

Is mystify a common word?

mystify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mystify?

72 words rhyme with mystify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.