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adjective
Cryptical, Cryptic  adj.  
1.
Hidden; secret; occult. "Her (nature's) more cryptic ways of working."
2.
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.
3.
Having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings.
Synonyms: cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline.
4.
Having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note.
5.
Not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection.
6.
Written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.
Synonyms: encoded, enciphered, encrypted.





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"Cryptical" Quotes from Famous Books



... he might have seen the sudden lighting of Rosamund's eyes, the sudden clutch at her bosom, which would have announced to him that his utterances were none so cryptic but that she ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... before he reached the rock he'd placed as a marker. He did cryptic things, facing away from Jill. From time to time there was a golden glitter in the air ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... before. In his former letter Li Ho had indeed intimated that a return was not desirable, but it had been an intimation based on general principles only. This was different. This had all the marks of urgent warning. "No more safe being married as per inclosed." This cryptic remark might mean that further enlightenment was to ...
— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... I marveled at these cryptic utterances. They shadowed a modern Black Art, of which I had had no conception—a recrudescence in other language of the age-old dualism of good and evil. It was a ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... priest; that it was there still; and that he was quite prepared to reveal the hiding-place to his English friends, feeling assured that they would use it in the manner which had been intended when it was first concealed. This again was a distinctly cryptic remark, of which neither of the Englishmen could possibly guess the meaning; but Stukely replied that Vilcamapata might rest assured that they would employ it wisely and well; and with that answer the Peruvian seemed perfectly satisfied. But when he was asked to describe the ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood


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