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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 'Cryptical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cryptical" Quotes from Famous Books

... Beyond the sunlight and the storm, Appears that lightning-laden form, That toothful smile, that cryptic face. ...

— The Broadway Anthology • Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton

... into the street where the Little Montmartre was preparing for a long evening of entertainment. We turned, and to cover ourselves got into a conversation with a hack driver who seemed suddenly to have sprung from nowhere with the cryptic whisper, "Drive you to the ...

— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve

... fish with argent stripes (whose proper name, I think, is the launce) a silverling. The "coasting reader" is the courteous reader when walking along the coast, and what he sees are silver fish and gold fish, adoring the Lord by the beauty of their scales. The Song to David is cryptic to a very high degree, but I think there are no lines in it which patient reflection will not solve. On every page are stanzas the verbal splendour of which no lover of poetry will question, and lines which will always, to me at least, retain an echo of that gusto with which ...

— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse

... he performed certain cryptic actions. He unraveled threads from his shirt and put them aside. There would be a vision-lens in the ceiling of his cell, and somebody would certainly notice what he did. He made a light. He put the threads in his mouth, set ...

— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

... neck. Yet did you ever see anything so graceful as those two girls and that magnificent dog when they went over? I tell you, girls, we've got something worth while in this school now, believe me. And just you wait!" and with this cryptic ending Juno jockeyed ahead ...

— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson

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