About The Word Cryptic
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Cryptic
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What's The Definition Of Cryptic?
[adj] having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
[adj] having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Cryptic: cabalistic | concise | cryptical | deep | esoteric | incomprehensible | inexplicable | inscrutable | mysterious | mystifying | sibylline Related Terms | Find terms related to Cryptic: abstruse | arcane | between the lines | cabalistic | cabbalistic | censored | classified | close | closed | concealed | covert | dark | delitescent | dormant | enigmatic | equivocal | esoteric | evasive | hermetic | hibernating | hidden | hush-hush | incomprehensible | inexplicable | inscrutable | latent | lurking | muffled | murky | mysterious | mystic | mystical | mystifying | nebulous | obfuscated | obscure | obscured | occult | opaque | perplexing | possible | potential | puzzling | recondite | restricted | riddling | secret | secretive | sleeping | smothered | sphinxlike | stifled | strange | submerged | suppressed | tenebrous | top secret | ulterior | unbreatheable | unclear | under security | under the surface | under wraps | underlying | undisclosable | undisclosed | undivulgable | undivulged | unfathomable | uninformative | unmanifested | unrevealable | unrevealed | unspoken | untellable | untold | unutterable | unuttered | unwhisperable | vague | veiled | virtual See Also | Cryptic In Webster's Dictionary \Cryp"tic\ (kr[i^]p"t[i^]k), Cryptical \Cryp"tic*al\
(-t?-kal), a. [L. crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to
hide.]
Hidden; secret; occult. ``Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of
working.'' --Glanvill.
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