152 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ sfˈɪŋks], [ sfˈɪŋks], [ s_f_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_s]

Related words: sphinx the cat, sphinx with wings, sphinx statue, sphinx animal, sphinx myth

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Similar words for sphinx:

• artifact (noun)
• enigma (noun)
• mystery (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• sculpture (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "sphinx" in context?

Homophones for sphinx

Hyponyms for sphinx

Antonyms for sphinx

Hypernyms for sphinx

Synonyms for Sphinx:

• n.

  • artifact (noun)
  • sphinx.
  • enigma (noun)
  • why,
  • stickler,
  • knot,
  • parable,
  • conundrum,
  • problem,
  • bewilderment,
  • cliffhanger,
  • cryptogram,
  • puzzlement,
  • question,
  • Gordian Knot,
  • mystification,
  • twister,
  • crux.
  • mystery (noun)
  • difficulty,
  • charade,
  • poser,
  • chiller,
  • oracle,
  • occult,
  • secrecy,
  • sixty-four-thousand-dollar question.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • mystery,
  • enigma,
  • mythical monster,
  • statue,
  • mind-twister,
  • role-playing game,
  • perplexity,
  • brainteaser,
  • question mark,
  • person,
  • inscrutability,
  • individual,
  • chillers,
  • rune,
  • abstruseness,
  • someone,
  • tough nut to crack,
  • grabbers,
  • typewriter,
  • brainteasers,
  • stumper,
  • sticker,
  • closed book,
  • Inscrutableness,
  • teasers,
  • grabber,
  • mortal,
  • thrillers,
  • mythical creature,
  • stumpers,
  • Rebuses,
  • sixty-four dollar question,
  • occults,
  • stickers,
  • runes,
  • teaser,
  • braintwister,
  • somebody,
  • thriller,
  • soul,
  • subtlety,
  • creature,
  • rebus,
  • mind-boggler,
  • whodunits,
  • mindboggler,
  • whodunit,
  • sphinxes,
  • puzzler,
  • lion.
  • sculpture (noun)
  • bust,
  • phallus,
  • pedestal,
  • plinth,
  • bronze,
  • figurine,
  • plaster cast,
  • carve,
  • bas relief,
  • phallic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • riddle,
  • uncertainty,
  • secret,
  • puzzle,
  • unknown quantity,
  • thing.
  •
  • bogeyman,
  • bogey,
  • chimera,
  • bunyip,
  • centaur,
  • boogeyman,
  • daemon,
  • the Abominable Snowman,
  • bigfoot.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • minotaur,
  • fortune teller,
  • body,
  • mind,
  • Haruspice,
  • personality,
  • core,
  • haruspex,
  • phoenix,
  • Kraken,
  • monogram,
  • prophet,
  • cockatrice,
  • man,
  • ogre,
  • sorcerer,
  • Logogriph,
  • seer,
  • monster,
  • merfolk,
  • augur,
  • merman,
  • interpreter,
  • griffin,
  • unicorn,
  • personification,
  • mermaid,
  • monitor,
  • troll,
  • sea serpent,
  • hydra,
  • personage,
  • party,
  • teratology,
  • roc,
  • wyvern,
  • Geomancer,
  • Aruspex,
  • Aruspice,
  • astrologer,
  • griffon,
  • riddle of the sphinx,
  • harpy,
  • heart,
  • witch,
  • arcanum,
  • soothsayer,
  • Prophesier,
  • anagram,
  • character,
  • dragon,
  • ghost,
  • hawk moth.

How to use "Sphinx" in context?

Homophones for Sphinx:

• sevens, shebang, sopping, sawbones, shopping, Spanish Oak, soupiness, savings, swabbing, spunky, shaving, spumous, saving, seeping, saponaceous, spinoza, Soapiness, spheniscus, spaying, shabbiness, spunk, spinus, suspense, spinach, spinose, Sophonias, safeness, seven seas, spiffing, sweeping, supping, shipping, shaping, spongy, Spininess, suaveness, sixpence, sac fungus, sponge, spinning, scoffing, spank, sapience, subbing, scavenge, spang, sycophancy, submucosa, successiveness, sea pink, spying, spinacia, sapiens, sobbing, sex offense, spinous, spanish, sponge cake.

Hyponym for Sphinx:

• n.

  • artifact
    statue.
  • person
    mortal, individual, person, someone, mythical monster, mythical creature, somebody, soul.