'Cryptic' definitions:
Definition of 'cryptic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable 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" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]
adjective
Having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline]
adjective
Having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
Definition of 'Cryptic'
From: GCIDE
- Cryptic \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. incomprehensible to those not familiar with the culture or jargon; as, the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.
- Syn: inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings.
- Syn: cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note. [WordNet 1.5]
- 4. not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection. [PJC]
- 5. written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.
- Syn: encoded, enciphered, encrypted. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'cryptic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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