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mysterious and difficult to understand: a cryptic message / remark.
1. : secret, occult. 2. a. : having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning : mysterious. cryptic messages. cryptic prophecies. b. : marked by an often perplexing brevity. cryptic marginal notes. 3. : serving to conceal. cryptic coloration in animals. also : exhibiting cryptic coloration. cryptic animals. 4. : not recognized.
Cryptic definition: mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous. See examples of CRYPTIC used in a sentence.
Cryptic comments or messages are hard to understand because they seem to have a hidden meaning. Cryptic is from Late Latin crypticus, from Greek kryptos, "hidden." This Greek adjective is the source of the English noun crypt, referring to a room under a church in which dead people are buried.
mysterious and difficult to understand: I got a cryptic text message from Sam. Synonyms. enigmatic. inscrutable. mysterious. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult to understand. abstrusely. ambiguity. ambiguously. esoterically. fathomlessly. garble. get it through your thick head idiom. it's all Greek to me idiom. labyrinthine.
A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand. He has issued a short, cryptic statement denying the spying charges. My father's notes are more cryptic here.
Having a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious; baffling. A cryptic comment. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Secret or occult. American Heritage. Obscure and curt in expression. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Serving to conceal, as the form or coloration of certain animals. Webster's New World. Using code or cipher.
Definition of cryptic adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
mysterious and difficult to understand: a cryptic comment / message. cryptically. adverb. (Definition of cryptic from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Synonyms for CRYPTIC: mysterious, enigmatic, uncanny, mystic, enigmatical, obscure, deep, dark; Antonyms of CRYPTIC: intelligible, understandable, obvious, clear, apparent, plain, evident, unambiguous
