From Old French mistique, from Latin mysticus, from Ancient Greek μυστικός, from μύστης ("one who has been initiated").

• IPA: /ˈmɪstɪk/

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?

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, Canto XXXVI, page 56 ↗:

     Tho’ truths in manhood darkly join,
     ⁠Deep-seated in our mystic frame,
     ⁠We yield all blessing to the name
     Of Him that made them current coin; […]

• French: mystique
• German: mystisch
• Portuguese: místico
• Russian: мисти́ческий

• German: mystisch
• Portuguese: místico
• Russian: мисти́ческий

mystic (plural mystics)

1. Someone who practices mysticism.

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

• French: mystique
• German: Mystiker, Mystikerin
• Italian: mistico, mistica
• Portuguese: místico, mística
• Russian: ми́стик
• Spanish: místico, mística

1. A number of places in USA:
   1. An ucomm in Nevada County, California.
   2. A ghost town in Routt County, Colorado.
   3. A village/and/CDP in New London County, Connecticut.
   4. A minor city in Appanoose County, Iowa.
   5. An ucomm in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
   6. An ucomm in Pennington County, South Dakota.