Associations to the word «Enigma»

Wiktionary

ENIGMA, noun. Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
ENIGMA, noun. A riddle, or a difficult problem.
ENIGMA, proper noun. A German device used during World War II to encode strategic messages
ENIGMA MACHINE, proper noun. A small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII
ENIGMA MACHINE, proper noun. Fig. something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic (see quotation)

Dictionary definition

ENIGMA, noun. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets".
ENIGMA, noun. A difficult problem.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope