Meanings
comparative more unmystical · superlative most unmystical
- Not mystical.
With all his attention bent in this new direction, Darwin soon noticed that a good deal was occurring in an entirely unmystical and even unmeaning way of which the older speculative Deist-Evolutionists had taken little or no account.
1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah1 more example
It was the kind of atmosphere suggesting Nature in her most sensible mood, full-blooded, normal, perfectly fulfilling her own vocation; utterly unmystical, except by very subtle interpretation; unsuggestive, since she was already saying all that could be said, and following out every principle by which she lived to the furthest confine of its contents.
1909, Robert Hugh Benson, The Necromancers
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*mewH-
- Proto-Indo-European*mewH-ye-
- Ancient Greekμῡ́ω (mū́ō)
- Ancient Greekμῠέω (mŭéō)
- Ancient Greekμῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs)
- Ancient Greekμῠστῐκός (mŭstĭkós)
- Latinmysticus
- Old Frenchmistique
- Englishmystic
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishmystical
- Englishunmystical
From un- + mystical.
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unmystical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmystical
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