adjective
- Of an obscure nature.
- usage: "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable 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"
- synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying
- Having a secret or hidden meaning."cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements- John Gunther
- synonyms: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, sibylline
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