cryptic meaning and definition

CRYPTIC adjective

Definition of cryptic (adjective)

1. of an obscure nature
   • "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: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying
2. having a secret or hidden meaning
   • "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
   • synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline
3. having a puzzling terseness
   • "a cryptic note"