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adjective

Cryptical, Cryptic adj.

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her (nature's) more cryptic ways of working."

Incomprehensible to those not familiar with the culture or jargon; as, the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.

Synonyms: inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying.

Having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings.

Synonyms: cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline.

Having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note.

Not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection.

Written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.

Synonyms: encoded, enciphered, encrypted.

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Etymology of 'Cryptic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cryptic" Quotes from Famous Books

... killing a cat than by choking it with cream," was his cryptic remark. "What would you say if I told you that in an hour's time we, will have every drop of water out of the yacht, and that following that we will have her afloat ...

— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... gazed at her in mild surprise. Doubtless he would have asked the meaning of this cryptic utterance; but at this moment the two seamen from the Milo issued forth from the gateway up the road; and, descending a few paces, turned to call back farewell to Mrs. Treacher, who, having escorted them so far, ...

— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... booklet from the desk and opened it before her. She saw the cryptic characters for the first time. And she saw them with his glowing eyes. In their mysterious strokes and curves and dots she saw romance, and the key of the future; she saw the philosopher's stone. She saw ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... the permeable membrane of a repair cell. The cell is an electrolyte and therefore division of the cell in course of preparation for multiplication might perhaps depend upon an electric impulse so delicately in balance that Nature for some cryptic reason might prefer not to allow the necessary balance to go toward cell division in grafts consisting of green growth of the year in perennials. Perhaps I might defeat natural processes by leaving a leaf or part ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... filled poor Lizabetha's mind with chaotic confusion. What on earth did it all mean? The most disturbing feature was the hedgehog. What was the symbolic signification of a hedgehog? What did they understand by it? What underlay it? Was it a cryptic message? ...

— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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