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Cryptic

adjective

Of an obscure nature. Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. "A deep dark secret" , "The inscrutable workings of Providence" , "In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life" , "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

Having a secret or hidden meaning. Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline. "Cryptic writings" , "Thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"

Having a puzzling terseness.

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... cryptic apothegm Mr. Latz's knee touched Mrs. Samstag's, so that he sprang back full of nerves at what ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... the cryptic way the missionary came to the climax of his story. Again the Southern Cross shot into view as we turned a ...

— Flash-lights from the Seven Seas • William L. Stidger

... in the same limestone plain add something to the mystery that overhangs all the rest. The first, at Lennan in Monaghan, is marked with a curious cryptic design, suggesting a clue, yet yielding none. There is a like script on the cromlech at Castlederg in Tyrone, if indeed the markings were ever the record of some thought to be remembered, and not mere ornament. The chambered cromlech of Lisbellaw in ...

— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston

... forgotten it; he produced it from his pocket, and—perhaps in consideration of the tip he had received from Miss Morley—he did not confiscate the spool, but handed it over intact with a polite gesture and a cryptic smile. ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... fantasy begins in the mood of the early Allegro; a wistful melody of the clarinet plays more slowly between cryptic reminders of the first theme of the symphony. In sudden Allegro risoluto over rumbling bass of strings, a mystic call of horns, harking far back, spreads its echoing ripples all about till it rises in united tones, with a clear, descending answer, much ...

— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

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