Mysterious
Mysterious adjective - Being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain.
Usage example: the huge stone statues on Easter Island are ancient, mysterious, and haunting
Nearby Words: mystery, mysteriously
Straightforward
Straightforward adjective - Not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation.
Usage example: the distinction between the two types of offenses is pretty straightforward
Mysterious is an antonym for straightforward.
Nearby Words: straightforwardly, straightforwardness
Both words in one sentence
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Thomas Zane seems to fill this role in Alan Wake, though he has mysterious motivations and is not always straightforward about things.
Source: Big Good -
Astrid is innocently charming, very honest and fights with straightforward Action Girl methods, while Fariah is beguiling, mysterious and fights with social manipulation.
Source: Light Feminine and Dark Feminine - At first the plot seems fairly straightforward: a crew of Transformers set off on a quest to find the mysterious Precursors by following an ancient starmap.
Source: Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
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