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cryptic

 
Adjective cryptic has 3 senses
  1. cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying - 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"
    Antonym: explicable (indirect, via inexplicable)
  2. cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline - having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
    Antonym: exoteric (indirect, via esoteric)
  3. cryptic - having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
    Antonym:
    prolix (indirect, via concise)
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