If you are mystified by something, you find it impossible to explain or understand. The audience must have been totally mystified by the plot There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me. = baffle + mystifying mys·ti·fy·ing I find your attitude a little mystifying, Moira. = puzzling. if something mystifies you, it is so strange or confusing that you cannot understand or explain it = baffle (mystifier, from mystère; MYSTERY PLAY)
To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture
{i} act of causing (someone or something) to become mysterious; obscuration; puzzlement, perplexity, act of causing a person to be unable to understand
of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"