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cryptic
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 • • • 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.
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