| cryptic [a] |
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| 1) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | cryptical deep inscrutable mysterious mystifying |
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| incomprehensible |
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| 2) | having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther |
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| Synonyms : | cabalistic cryptical kabbalistic qabalistic sibylline |
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| esoteric |
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| 3) | having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note" |
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| concise |
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