All stumper synonyms
stump·er
S s noun stumper
- mystery — anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- indirect question — An indirect question is the same as a reported question.
- bidder — A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
- occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- leading question — a question so worded as to suggest the proper or desired answer.
- gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.