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cryp‧tic/ˈkrɪptɪk/ adjective
[date : 1600-1700; Language : Late Latin; Origin : crypticus, from Greek, from kryptos; ⇨ crypto-]
having a meaning that is mysterious or not easily understood
cryptic remark/comment/statement etc
　 ▪ a cryptic note at the end of the letter

—cryptically /-kli/ adverb
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THESAURUS
▪mysterious difficult to explain or understand, and often strange or slightly frightening :
　 ▪ the mysterious disappearance of ships in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle
　 ▪ What’s that mysterious noise?
▪puzzling difficult to explain or understand :
　 ▪ At first this must seem a puzzling question.
　 ▪ I found her attitude deeply puzzling.
▪baffling impossible to understand, so that you feel very confused :
　 ▪ It was a baffling case.
　 ▪ Like many people, I find theroretical physics baffling.
▪inexplicable formal impossible to explain :
　 ▪ For some inexplicable reason her mind went completely blank.
　 ▪ Some things in life are inexplicable.
▪enigmatic formal mysterious and difficult to understand, but also often attractive or interesting – used especially about people, their expressions, or things they say :
　 ▪ She gave him an enigmatic smile.
　 ▪ an enigmatic remark
▪cryptic formal having a meaning that is difficult to understand, and is not expressed in a clear direct way – used especially about things that people say or write :
　 ▪ I got a rather cryptic message from him.
　 ▪ cryptic comments
▪be a mystery if something is a mystery, you cannot understand how or why it happens :
　 ▪ Four years later, his death remains a complete mystery.
　 ▪ It’s all a mystery to me.
▪be shrouded/veiled in mystery if an event or a situation, especially one that happened a long time ago, is shrouded in mystery, it is mysterious because no one knows exactly what happened :
　 ▪ Stone age civilization, veiled in mystery as it is, has provided the greatest challenge to historians.

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
message
▪ A novel of international intrigue in which Grace goes to Stockholm in response to a cryptic message from her sister, Willa.
▪ Better to lose face and be open about not understanding the cryptic message, than to lose sleep at night over it.
▪ Manville perused the cryptic message with satisfaction.
▪ As described in Chapter Five, the manager may use cryptic messages to reinforce this impression.
▪ And was his cryptic message supposed to imply forgiveness for her own error - or some kind of apology for his own?
▪ And because, somehow, Luke Hunter had caught her off balance with his flowers and cryptic messages.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Indovina's lyrics are mostly cryptic and obscure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there is one story which, in a cryptic and covert way, does.
▪ Darby was a cheerfully relaxed young man who compiled cryptic crosswords for a monthly magazine in his spare time.
▪ He did not find the question cryptic or bizarre.
▪ My journal is confused, almost cryptic on these matters.
▪ Rather, what she was saying with her cryptic scriptural reference was that I might not be asking the right question.
▪ These variations appear cryptic to most westerners, and require some explanation.
▪ Write down any error messages you see, no matter how cryptic.