Sphinges [noun]

Definition of Sphinges:

puzzle, secret

Synonyms of Sphinges:

● Riddle

● Conundrum

● Subtlety

● Question

● Enigma

● Secrecy

● Problem

● Mystification

● Perplexity

● Stickler

● Cliffhanger

● Twister

● Occult

● Puzzlement

● Cryptogram

● Crux

● Difficulty

● Poser

● Why

● Charade

● Oracle

● Sixty-four-thousand-dollar question

● Thriller

● Stumper

● Abstruseness

● Grabber

● Whodunit

● Chiller

● Teaser

● Inscrutability

● Rune

● Rebus

● Brainteaser

● Braintwister

● Closed book

● Inscrutableness

● Mindboggler

● Tough nut to crack


Opposite/Antonyms of Sphinges:

● Understanding

● Known


Sentence/Example of Sphinges:

The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed.

Probably King Harmachis had the Sphinx altered to look like him.

The Sphinx is a woman, as I will insist to my dying day, if it were my last word!

Which do you find more impressive, the Sphinx or the Pyramids?

He became an inexplicable creature; a breeched and booted Sphinx.

For hours together he lay stretched upon my knee, like the shadow of a sphinx.

The dawn filtered over the head of the Sphinx, and there were stirrings in the sky.

But he might as well have looked for expression in that of a sphinx.

Good fellow all right, and, for a 'sphinx' as you call him, likable.

But what—as the country parson's sermon drones on—thinks the Sphinx?