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Definition of cryptic:
Synonyms:
occult, hollow, uncanny, mystifying, sibyllic, Delphic, mystical, rich, kabbalistic, two-edged, hidden, divinatory, fuliginous, impenetrable, ill-defined, concise, incomprehensible, mantic, recondite, secret, vatic, explain, equivocal, esoteric, inexplicable, opaque, ambiguity, mysterious, study at obscure, mystic, abstruse, double-edged, sibylline, cabalistic, nonsense, inscrutable, obscure, qabalistic, arcane, murky, elliptical, bass, orphic, thick, vatical, deep, cryptical, puzzling, dark, nebulous, knowledge, ambiguous.
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meaningless (part of speech: adjective)
- blathering,
- senseless,
- driveling,
- meaningless,
- gobbledygook,
- hogwash,
- unmeaning,
- noisy,
- jabbering,
- nonsensical,
- absurd,
- blathering,
- double-talk
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unintelligible (part of speech: adjective)
- illegible,
- baffling,
- mystifying,
- indecipherable,
- mysterious,
- unclear,
- confusing,
- enigmatic,
- unreadable
Usage examples:
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I will begin with that of Walter Pater: As we have seen him using incidents of sacred story, not for their own sake, or as mere subjects for pictorial realisation, but as a cryptic language for fancies all his own, so now he found a vent for his thought in taking one of these languid women, and raising her, as Leda or Pomona, as Modesty or Vanity, to the seventh heaven of symbolical expression.
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Must bring news, said Bell, leaving her hurriedly, and so neglecting to ask the meaning of her cryptic remark.
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I guess I was half afraid a woman might pick up, but it was him and there were no hushed tones or cryptic monosyllables.